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Hall Caine John Galsworthy Edward Gibbon Thomas Huxley Thomas Jefferson |
Montaigne Queen of Navarre Rabelais Rousseau Antoine de la Sale |
George B. Shaw Mark Twain Voltaire Emile Zola Ambroise Bierce |
| ## Creed And Deed | By Felix Adler (1851 - 1933) |
| ## Monks, Popes, and their Intrigues | By John Alberger (circa 1850) |
| ## Reason, The Only Oracle of Man | By Ethan Allen (1737 - 1789) |
| Letter To Sir Samuel Shepherd | By Anonymous (--) |
| The Life of David | By Anonymous (--) |
| The Doubts Of Infidels | By Anonymous (--) |
| The Miraculous Conception | By Anonymous (--) |
| ## Thoughts on the Christian Religion | By Anonymous (--) |
| Christian Mystery | By Anonymous (--) |
| The Gospel of Evolution | By Edward Aveling (1849 - 1898) |
| ## My Path to Atheism | By Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) |
| What it is Blasphemy to Deny | By Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) |
| ## God and my Neighbour | by Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) |
| ## The Decameron | by Giovanni Boccaccio () |
| ## Life of St. Paul | by Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (1722-1759) |
| ## Christianity Unveiled | by Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (1722-1759) |
| ## Ancient and Modern Freethinkers | By Bradlaugh, Collins and Watts (--) |
| Humanity's Gain from Unbelief | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| ## Impeachment of The House of Brunswick | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| ## The Bible: what it is | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| When Were Our Gospels Written? | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| ## Heresy: Its Utility And Morality | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| ## A Few Words About the Devil | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| Some Objections To Socialism | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| ## Theological Essays | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| ## L'Histoire Des Vaudois | By J. Bresse (--) |
| ## Bacon And Shakspere | By William Henry Burr (--) |
| ## The Battle of The Press | By T. Carlile Campbell (--) |
| Address to Men of Science | By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) |
| Life of Thomas Paine | By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) |
| Church Reform | By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) |
| ## Society for the Suppression of Vice | By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) |
| ## Pagan and Christian Creeds | by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) |
| Marriage In Free Society | by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) |
| ## Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. | By Walter Richard Cassels (1826 - 1907) |
| ## Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. | By Walter Richard Cassels (1826 - 1907) |
| ## Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. | By Walter Richard Cassels (1826 - 1907) |
| ## A Grammar of Freethought | By Chapman Cohen (1868 - 1954) |
| ## The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. | By Moncure D. Conway (1832 - 1907) |
| ## The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. | By Moncure D. Conway (1832 - 1907) |
| ## Biblical Extracts | By Robert Cooper (--) |
| ## The Power Of The Popes | By Pierre Claude François Daunou (1761 - 1840) |
| ## On the Origin of Species, Ed. 1 | by Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) |
| ## On the Origin of Species, Ed. 6 | by Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) |
| ## Religion and Science | by John William Draper (1811-1882) |
| In Praise of Folly | By Desiderius Erasmus (1466? - 1536) |
| ## Tales and Novels | By Jean de la Fontaine (1621 - 1695) |
| ## Prisoner for Blasphemy | by George William Foote (1850-1915) |
| ## Flowers of Freethought, I | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| ## Flowers of Freethought, II | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| ## Arrows of Freethought | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| ## Bible Romances | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| Comic Bible Sketches | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| ## The Book Of God | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| ## Satires And Profanities | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| Salvation Syrup | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| ## Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| Watson Refuted | By Samuel Francis (1850-1915) |
| ## God-Idea of the Ancients | By Eliza Burt Gamble ( ) |
| ## Men, Women, and Gods | By Helen H. Gardener (1853-1925) |
| ## Rule of the Monk | By Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807 - 1882) |
| ## Sixteen Crucified Saviors | By Kersey Graves (1813 - 1883) |
| ## Leviathan | By Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) |
| ## Auricular Confession + Nunneries | By William Hogan (circa 1795) |
| ## Popery! As it Was and Is | By William Hogan (circa 1795) |
| ## Good Sense | by Baron D'Holbach (1723-1789) |
| ## Letters To Eugenia | By Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (1723-1789) |
| ## Liberty In The Nineteenth Century | by Frederic May Holland (--) |
| ## Bygones, Vol. 1 | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| ## Bygones, Vol. 2 | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| ## Principles Of Secularism | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| The Limits Of Atheism | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| ## Last Trial For Atheism | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| ## A Logic of Facts | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| ## English Secularism | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| ## Life of Richard Carlile | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| Ludicrous Christianity | By Austin Holyoak (--) |
| ## The Ghosts | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Hell | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| ## About The Holy Bible | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Oration on Thomas Paine | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| The Christian Religion | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Heretics And Heresies | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Humboldt | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Individuality | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| ## Mistakes of Moses | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Thomas Paine-A Lecture | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Trial of C. B. Reynolds | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Shakespeare | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| ## Ingersollia | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| The Gods | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Ancient Faiths And Modern | By Thomas Inman (1820-1876) |
| Ancient Pagan Symbolism | By Thomas Inman (1820-1876) |
| ## Fruits of Philosophy | By Charles Knowlton (1800 - 1850) |
| ## Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | by Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) |
| ## Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 2 | by Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) |
| Tyanny of God (produced by Distributed Proofreaders) | by Joseph Lewis (1889 - 1968) |
| ## The Story of the Mormons | by William Alexander Linn (1886-1944) |
| ## Supernatural Claims of Christianity | by Lionel Lisle ( ) |
| ## The Story of Mankind | By Hendrik van Loon (1882 - 1944) |
| ## Superstition In All Ages | by Jean Meslier (1664-1729) |
| ## Religion In The Heavens | by Logan Mitchell (--) |
| Exempting the Churches | by James F. Morton, Jr (--) |
| Nature and the Gods | By Arthur B. Moss ( ) |
| ## Friends of Free Discussion | By Benjamin Offen ( ) |
| ## The Non-Christian Cross | By John Denham Parsons ( ) |
| Character Of The Jew Books | By Philanthropos ( ) |
| Character Of a Priest | By Philanthropos ( ) |
| Ingersoll in Canada | By Allen Pringle ( ) |
| Anthem | by Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| The Christ Of Paul | By George Reber ( ) |
| ## Bygone Beliefs | by H. Stanley Redgrove (1887-1943) |
| ## Lincoln: Was He A Christian? | By John B. Remsburg ( ) |
| The Christian Sabbath | By John E. Remsburg ( ) |
| ## Thomas Paine, The Apostle of Liberty | By John E. Remsburg ( ) |
| ## Maxims | of Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| ## The Holy Coat Of Treves | By John Ronge ( ) |
| ## On The Prospects Of Christianity | By George B. Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
| The Wandering Jew | By Eugene Sue (1804 - 1857) |
| ## Arguments of Celsus | By Thomas Taylor (1858 - 1938) |
| The Innocents Abroad | By Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
| ## The Entire Forbidden Gospels | by Archbishop William Wake (1657 - 1737) |
| ## Is The Bible Worth Reading | by Lemuel K. Washburn ( ) |
| ## The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys | by R. B. Westbrook ( ) |
| A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers | By Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (--) |
| ## Frauds and Follies of the Fathers | By Joseph M. Wheeler ( ) |
| ## Bible Studies | By Joseph M. Wheeler ( ) |
| The Christian Doctrine of Hell | By Joseph M. Wheeler ( ) |
| ## Warfare of Science with Theology | by Andrew Dickson White (1832 - 1918) |
| ## The Ruins |
by C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney (1757-1820) |
| Letter To Sir Samuel Shepherd | By Anonymous (--) |
| The Life of David | By Anonymous (--) |
| The Doubts Of Infidels | By Anonymous (--) |
| The Miraculous Conception | By Anonymous (--) |
| Christian Mystery | By Anonymous (--) |
| What it is Blasphemy to Deny | By Annie Besant (1847 - 1933) |
| Humanity's Gain from Unbelief | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| When Were Our Gospels Written? | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| Some Objections To Socialism | By Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891) |
| Address to Men of Science | By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) |
| Life of Thomas Paine | By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) |
| Church Reform | By Richard Carlile (1790 - 1843) |
| Marriage In Free Society | by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) |
| In Praise of Folly | By Desiderius Erasmus (1466? - 1536) |
| Comic Bible Sketches | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| Salvation Syrup | By George W. Foote (1850-1915) |
| Watson Refuted | By Samuel Francis (1850-1915) |
| The Limits Of Atheism | By George Jacob Holyoake (1817 - 1906) |
| Ludicrous Christianity | By Austin Holyoak (--) |
| Hell | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Oration on Thomas Paine | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| The Christian Religion | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Heretics And Heresies | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Humboldt | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Individuality | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Thomas Paine-A Lecture | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Trial of C. B. Reynolds | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| The Gods | By Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) |
| Ancient Pagan Symbolism | By Thomas Inman (1820-1876) |
| Character Of a Priest | By Philanthropos ( ) |
| The Christian Sabbath | By John E. Remsburg ( ) |
| The Christian Doctrine of Hell | By Joseph M. Wheeler ( ) |
"Like lambs have we crept into power; like wolves have we used it; like dogs have we been driven out; like eagles shall we renew our youth."—St. Francis Borgia.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."—Washington.
PREFACE
MONKS, POPES, AND THEIR POLITICAL INTRIGUES
| CHAPTER I. | CATHOLICISM A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION |
| CHAPTER II. | THE POLITICAL MACHINERY OF THE PAPAL POWER |
| CHAPTER III. | THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SOLITUDE |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SILENCE |
| CHAPTER V. | THE MONASTIC VOW OF SILENT CONTEMPLATION |
| CHAPTER VI. | THE MONASTIC VOW OF POVERTY |
| CHAPTER VII. | MONASTIC VOW OF CELIBACY |
| CHAPTER VIII. | MONASTIC VOW OF UNCONDITIONAL OBEDIENCE |
| CHAPTER IX. | PAGAN ORIGIN OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS.—CONCLUDING REMARKS |
| CHAPTER X. | POPES, THEIR PRETENSIONS, ELECTIONS, CHARACTER, AND ADMINISTRATIONS |
| CHAPTER XI. | THE PAPAL MONARCHY |
| CHAPTER XII. | PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN ENGLAND |
| CHAPTER XIII. | PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN FRANCE |
| CHAPTER XIV. | PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN GERMANY |
| CHAPTER XV. | PAPAL POLITICAL INTRIGUES IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN |
| CHAPTER XVI. | PAPAL INTRIGUES RESPECTING THE UNITED STATES |
| THOUGHTS ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY A DEIST |
| ON MIRACULOUS CONVERSIONS. |
| A FEW IDEAS ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. |
| DEISM EXAMINED |
| The First Story. Master Ciappelletto dupeth a holy friar with a false confession and dieth; and having been in his lifetime the worst of men, he is, after his death, reputed a saint and called Saint Ciappelletto 16 |
| The Second Story. Abraham the Jew, at the instigation of Jehannot de Chevigné, goeth to the Court of Rome and seeing the depravity of the clergy, returneth to Paris and there becometh a Christian 25 |
| The Third Story. Melchizedek the Jew, with a story of three rings, escapeth a parlous snare set for him by Saladin 28 |
| The Fourth Story. A monk, having fallen into a sin deserving of very grievous punishment, adroitly reproaching the same fault to his abbot, quitteth himself of the penalty 30 |
| The Fifth Story. The Marchioness of Monferrato, with a dinner of hens and certain sprightly words, curbeth the extravagant passion of the King of France 33 |
| The Sixth Story. An honest man, with a chance pleasantry, putteth to shame the perverse hypocrisy of the religious orders 35 |
| The Seventh Story. Bergamino, with a story of Primasso and the Abbot of Cluny, courteously rebuketh a fit of parsimony newly come to Messer Cane della Scala 37 |
| The Eighth Story. Guglielmo Borsiere with some quaint words rebuketh the niggardliness of Messer Ermino de' Grimaldi 40 |
| The Ninth Story. The King of Cyprus, touched to the quick by a Gascon lady, from a mean-spirited prince becometh a man of worth and valiance 42 |
| The Tenth Story. Master Alberto of Bologna civilly putteth a lady to the blush who thought to have shamed him of being enamoured of her 43 |
| The First Story. Martellino feigneth himself a cripple and maketh believe to wax whole upon the body of St. Arrigo. His imposture being discovered, he is beaten and being after taken [for a thief,] goeth in peril of being hanged by the neck, but ultimately escapeth 49 |
| The Second Story. Rinaldo d'Asti, having been robbed, maketh his way to Castel Guglielmo, where he is hospitably entertained by a widow lady and having made good his loss, returneth to his own house, safe and sound 52 |
| The Third Story. Three young men squander their substance and become poor; but a nephew of theirs, returning home in desperation, falleth in with an abbot and findeth him to be the king's daughter of England, who taketh him to husband and maketh good all his uncles' losses, restoring them to good estate 57 |
| The Fourth Story. Landolfo Ruffolo, grown poor, turneth corsair and being taken by the Genoese, is wrecked at sea, but saveth himself upon a coffer full of jewels of price and being entertained in Corfu by a woman, returneth home rich 63 |
| The Fifth Story. Andreuccio of Perugia, coming to Naples to buy horses, is in one night overtaken with three grievous accidents, but escapeth them all and returneth home with a ruby 66 |
| The Sixth Story. Madam Beritola, having lost her two sons, is found on a desert island with two kids and goeth thence into Lunigiana, where one of her sons, taking service with the lord of the country, lieth with his daughter and is cast into prison. Sicily after rebelling against King Charles and the youth being recognized by his mother, he espouseth his lord's daughter, and his brother being likewise found, they are all three restored to high estate 75 |
| The Seventh Story. The Soldan of Babylon sendeth a daughter of his to be married to the King of Algarve, and she, by divers chances, in the space of four years cometh to the hands of nine men in various places. Ultimately, being restored to her father for a maid, she goeth to the King of Algarve to wife, as first she did 85 |
| The Eighth Story. The Count of Antwerp, being falsely accused, goeth into exile and leaveth his two children in different places in England, whither, after awhile, returning in disguise and finding them in good case, he taketh service as a horseboy in the service of the King of France and being approved innocent, is restored to his former estate 100 |
| The Ninth Story. Bernabo of Genoa, duped by Ambrogiuolo, loseth his good and commandeth that his innocent wife be put to death. She escapeth and serveth the Soldan in a man's habit. Here she lighteth upon the deceiver of her husband and bringeth the latter to Alexandria, where, her traducer being punished, she resumeth woman's apparel and returneth to Genoa with her husband, rich 111 |
| The Tenth Story. Paganino of Monaco stealeth away the wife of Messer Ricciardo di Chinzica, who, learning where she is, goeth thither and making friends with Paganino, demandeth her again of him. The latter concedeth her to him, an she will; but she refuseth to return with him and Messer Ricciardo dying, she becometh the wife of Paganino 120 |
| The First Story. Masetto of Lamporecchio feigneth himself dumb and becometh gardener to a convent of women, who all flock to lie with him 129 |
| The Second Story. A horsekeeper lieth with the wife of King Agilulf, who, becoming aware thereof, without word said, findeth him out and polleth him; but the polled man polleth all his fellows on like wise and so escapeth ill hap 134 |
| The Third Story. Under colour of confession and of exceeding niceness of conscience, a lady, being enamoured of a young man, bringeth a grave friar, without his misdoubting him thereof, to afford a means of giving entire effect to her pleasure 137 |
| The Fourth Story. Dom Felice teacheth Fra Puccio how he may become beatified by performing a certain penance of his fashion, which the other doth, and Dom Felice meanwhile leadeth a merry life of it with the good man's wife 143 |
| The Fifth Story. Ricciardo, surnamed Il Zima, giveth Messer Francesco Vergellesi a palfrey of his and hath therefor his leave to speak with his wife. She keeping silence, he in her person replieth unto himself, and the effect after ensueth in accordance with his answer 147 |
| The Sixth Story. Ricciardo Minutolo, being enamoured of the wife of Filippello Fighinolfi and knowing her jealousy of her husband, contriveth, by representing that Filippello was on the ensuing day to be with his own wife in a bagnio, to bring her to the latter place, where, thinking to be with her husband, she findeth that she hath abidden with Ricciardo 152 |
| The Seventh Story. Tedaldo Elisei, having fallen out with his mistress, departeth Florence and returning thither, after awhile, in a pilgrim's favour, speaketh with the lady and maketh her cognisant of her error; after which he delivereth her husband, who had been convicted of murdering him, from death and reconciling him with his brethren, thenceforward discreetly enjoyeth himself with his mistress 157 |
| The Eighth Story. Ferondo, having swallowed a certain powder, is entombed for dead and being taken forth of the sepulchre by the abbot, who enjoyeth his wife the while, is put in prison and given to believe that he is in purgatory; after which, being raised up again, he reareth for his own a child begotten of the abbot on his wife 169 |
| The Ninth Story. Gillette de Narbonne recovereth the King of France of a fistula and demandeth for her husband Bertrand de Roussillon, who marrieth her against his will and betaketh him for despite to Florence, where, he paying court to a young lady, Gillette, in the person of the latter, lieth with him and hath by him two sons; wherefore after, holding her dear, he entertaineth her for his wife 176 |
| The Tenth Story. Alibech, turning hermit, is taught by Rustico, a monk, to put the devil in hell, and being after brought away thence, becometh Neerbale his wife 182 |
| The First Story. Tancred, Prince of Salerno, slayeth his daughter's lover and sendeth her his heart in a bowl of gold; whereupon, pouring poisoned water over it, she drinketh thereof and dieth 194 |
| The Second Story. Fra Alberto giveth a lady to believe that the angel Gabriel is enamoured of her and in his shape lieth with her sundry times; after which, for fear of her kinsmen, he casteth himself forth of her window into the canal and taketh refuge in the house of a poor man, who on the morrow carrieth him, in the guise of a wild man of the woods, to the Piazza, where, being recognized, he is taken by his brethren and put in prison 201 |
| The Third Story. Three young men love three sisters and flee with them into Crete, where the eldest sister for jealousy slayeth her lover. The second, yielding herself to the Duke of Crete, saveth her sister from death, whereupon her own lover slayeth her and fleeth with the eldest sister. Meanwhile the third lover and the youngest sister are accused of the new murder and being taken, confess it; then, for fear of death, they corrupt their keepers with money and flee to Rhodes, where they die in poverty 208 |
| The Fourth Story. Gerbino, against the plighted faith of his grandfather, King Guglielmo of Sicily, attacketh a ship of the King of Tunis, to carry off a daughter of his, who being put to death of those on board, he slayeth these latter and is after himself beheaded 213 |
| The Fifth Story. Lisabetta's brothers slay her lover, who appeareth to her in a dream and showeth her where he is buried, whereupon she privily disinterreth his head and setteth it in a pot of basil. Thereover making moan a great while every day, her brothers take it from her and she for grief dieth a little thereafterward 216 |
| The Sixth Story. Andrevuola loveth Gabriotto and recounteth to him a dream she hath had, whereupon he telleth her one of his own and presently dieth suddenly in her arms. What while she and a waiting woman of hers bear him to his own house, they are taken by the officers of justice and carried before the provost, to whom she discovereth how the case standeth. The provost would fain force her, but she suffereth it not and her father, coming to hear of the matter, procureth her to be set at liberty, she being found innocent; whereupon, altogether refusing to abide longer in the world, she becometh a nun 220 |
| The Seventh Story. Simona loveth Pasquino and they being together in a garden, the latter rubbeth a leaf of sage against his teeth and dieth. She, being taken and thinking to show the judge how her lover died, rubbeth one of the same leaves against her teeth and dieth on like wise 225 |
| The Eighth Story. Girolamo loveth Salvestra and being constrained by his mother's prayers to go to Paris, returneth and findeth his mistress married; whereupon he entereth her house by stealth and dieth by her side; and he being carried to a church, Salvestra dieth beside him 228 |
| The Ninth Story. Sir Guillaume de Roussillon giveth his wife to eat the heart of Sir Guillaume de Guardestaing by him slain and loved of her, which she after coming to know, casteth herself from a high casement to the ground and dying, is buried with her lover 232 |
| The Tenth Story. A physician's wife putteth her lover for dead in a chest, which two usurers carry off to their own house, gallant and all. The latter, who is but drugged, cometh presently to himself and being discovered, is taken for a thief; but the lady's maid avoucheth to the seignory that she herself had put him into the chest stolen by the two usurers, whereby he escapeth the gallows and the thieves are amerced in certain monies 235 |
| The First Story. Cimon, loving, waxeth wise and carrieth off to sea Iphigenia his mistress. Being cast into prison at Rhodes, he is delivered thence by Lysimachus and in concert with him carrieth off Iphigenia and Cassandra on their wedding-day, with whom the twain flee into Crete, where the two ladies become their wives and whence they are presently all four recalled home 244 |
| The Second Story. Costanza loveth Martuccio Gomito and hearing that he is dead, embarketh for despair alone in a boat, which is carried by the wind to Susa. Finding her lover alive at Tunis, she discovereth herself to him and he, being great in favour with the king for counsels given, espouseth her and returneth rich with her to Lipari 252 |
| The Third Story. Pietro Boccamazza, fleeing with Agnolella, falleth among thieves; the girl escapeth through a wood and is led [by fortune] to a castle, whilst Pietro is taken by the thieves, but presently, escaping from their hands, winneth, after divers adventures, to the castle where his mistress is and espousing her, returneth with her to Rome 256 |
| The Fourth Story. Ricciardo Manardi, being found by Messer Lizio da Valbona with his daughter, espouseth her and abideth in peace with her father 261 |
| The Fifth Story. Guidotto da Cremona leaveth to Giacomino da Pavia a daughter of his and dieth. Giannole di Severino and Minghino di Mingole fall in love with the girl at Faenza and come to blows on her account. Ultimately she is proved to be Giannole's sister and is given to Minghino to wife 265 |
| The Sixth Story. Gianni di Procida being found with a young lady, whom he loved and who had been given to King Frederick of Sicily, is bound with her to a stake to be burnt; but, being recognized by Ruggieri dell' Oria, escapeth and becometh her husband 269 |
| The Seventh Story. Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of Messer Amerigo his lord, getteth her with child and is condemned to be hanged; but, being recognized and delivered by his father, as they are leading him to the gallows, scourging him the while, he taketh Violante to wife 273 |
| The Eighth Story. Nastagio degli Onesti, falling in love with a lady of the Traversari family, spendeth his substance, without being beloved in return, and betaking himself, at the instance of his kinsfolk, to Chiassi, he there seeth a horseman give chase to a damsel and slay her and cause her to be devoured of two dogs. Therewithal he biddeth his kinsfolk and the lady whom he loveth to a dinner, where his mistress seeth the same damsel torn in pieces and fearing a like fate, taketh Nastagio to husband 278 |
| The Ninth Story. Federigo degli Alberighi loveth and is not loved. He wasteth his substance in prodigal hospitality till there is left him but one sole falcon, which, having nought else, he giveth his mistress to eat, on her coming to his house; and she, learning this, changeth her mind and taking him to husband, maketh him rich again 282 |
| The Tenth Story. Pietro di Vinciolo goeth to sup abroad, whereupon his wife letteth fetch her a youth to keep her company, and her husband returning, unlooked for, she hideth her gallant under a hen-coop. Pietro telleth her how there had been found in the house of one Arcolano, with whom he was to have supped, a young man brought in by his wife, and she blameth the latter. Presently, an ass, by mischance, setteth foot on the fingers of him who is under the coop and he roareth out, whereupon Pietro runneth thither and espying him, discovereth his wife's unfaith, but ultimately cometh to an accord with her for his own lewd ends 286 |
| The First Story. A gentleman engageth to Madam Oretta to carry her a-horseback with a story, but, telling it disorderly, is prayed by her to set her down again 296 |
| The Second Story. Cisti the baker with a word of his fashion maketh Messer Geri Spina sensible of an indiscreet request of his 297 |
| The Third Story. Madam Nonna de' Pulci, with a ready retort to a not altogether seemly pleasantry, imposeth silence on the Bishop of Florence 299 |
| The Fourth Story. Chichibio, cook to Currado Gianfigliazzi, with a ready word spoken to save himself, turneth his master's anger into laughter and escapeth the punishment threatened him by the latter 301 |
| The Fifth Story. Messer Forese da Rabatta and Master Giotto the painter coming from Mugello, each jestingly rallieth the other on his scurvy favour 303 |
| The Sixth Story. Michele Scalza proveth to certain young men that the cadgers of Florence are the best gentlemen of the world or the Maremma and winneth a supper 304 |
| The Seventh Story. Madam Filippa, being found by her husband with a lover of hers and brought to justice, delivereth herself with a prompt and pleasant answer and causeth modify the statute 306 |
| The Eighth Story. Fresco exhorteth his niece not to mirror herself in the glass if, as she saith, it irketh her to see disagreeable folk 308 |
| The Ninth Story. Guido Cavalcanti with a pithy speech courteously flouteth certain Florentine gentlemen who had taken him by surprise 309 |
| The Tenth Story. Fra Cipolla promiseth certain country folk to show them one of the angel Gabriel's feathers and finding coals in place thereof, avoucheth these latter to be of those which roasted St. Lawrence 311 |
| The First Story. Gianni Lotteringhi heareth knock at his door by night and awakeneth his wife, who giveth him to believe that it is a phantom; whereupon they go to exorcise it with a certain orison and the knocking ceaseth 323 |
| The Second Story. Peronella hideth a lover of hers in a vat, upon her husband's unlooked for return, and hearing from the latter that he hath sold the vat, avoucheth herself to have sold it to one who is presently therewithin, to see if it be sound; whereupon the gallant, jumping out of the vat, causeth the husband scrape it out for him and after carry it home to his house 326 |
| The Third Story. Fra Rinaldo lieth with his gossip and being found of her husband closeted with her in her chamber, they give him to believe that he was in act to conjure worms from his godson 329 |
| The Fourth Story. Tofano one night shutteth his wife out of doors, who, availing not to re-enter by dint of entreaties, feigneth to cast herself into a well and casteth therein a great stone. Tofano cometh forth of the house and runneth thither, whereupon she slippeth in and locking him out, bawleth reproaches at him from the window 333 |
| The Fifth Story. A jealous husband, in the guise of a priest, confesseth his wife, who giveth him to believe that she loveth a priest, who cometh to her every night; and whilst the husband secretly keepeth watch at the door for the latter, the lady bringeth in a lover of hers by the roof and lieth with him 336 |
| The Sixth Story. Madam Isabella, being in company with Leonetto her lover, is visited by one Messer Lambertuccio, of whom she is beloved; her husband returning, [unexpected,] she sendeth Lambertuccio forth of the house, whinger in hand, and the husband after escorteth Leonetto home 341 |
| The Seventh Story. Lodovico discovereth to Madam Beatrice the love he beareth her, whereupon she sendeth Egano her husband into the garden, in her own favour, and lieth meanwhile with Lodovico, who, presently arising, goeth and cudgelleth Egano in the garden 344 |
| The Eighth Story. A man waxeth jealous of his wife, who bindeth a piece of packthread to her great toe anights, so she may have notice of her lover's coming. One night her husband becometh aware of this device and what while he pursueth the lover, the lady putteth another woman to bed in her room. This latter the husband beateth and cutteth off her hair, then fetcheth his wife's brothers, who, finding his story [seemingly] untrue, give him hard words 348 |
| The Ninth Story. Lydia, wife of Nicostratus, loveth Pyrrhus, who, so he may believe it, requireth of her three things, all which she doth. Moreover, she solaceth herself with him in the presence of Nicostratus and maketh the latter believe that that which he hath seen is not real 353 |
| The Tenth Story. Two Siennese love a lady, who is gossip to one of them; the latter dieth and returning to his companion, according to premise made him, relateth to him how folk fare in the other world 360 |
| The First Story. Gulfardo borroweth of Guasparruolo certain monies, for which he hath agreed with his wife that he shall lie with her, and accordingly giveth them to her; then, in her presence, he telleth Guasparruolo that he gave them to her, and she confesseth it to be true 365 |
| The Second Story. The parish priest of Varlungo lieth with Mistress Belcolore and leaveth her a cloak of his in pledge; then, borrowing a mortar of her, he sendeth it back to her, demanding in return the cloak left by way of token, which the good woman grudgingly giveth him back 367 |
| The Third Story. Calandrino, Bruno and Buffalmacco go coasting along the Mugnone in search of the heliotrope and Calandrino thinketh to have found it. Accordingly he returneth home, laden with stones, and his wife chideth him; whereupon, flying out into a rage, he beateth her and recounteth to his companions that which they know better than he 371 |
| The Fourth Story. The rector of Fiesole loveth a widow lady, but is not loved by her and thinking to lie with her, lieth with a serving-wench of hers, whilst the lady's brothers cause the bishop find him in this case 377 |
| The Fifth Story. Three young men pull the breeches off a Marchegan judge in Florence, what while he is on the bench, administering justice 380 |
| The Sixth Story. Bruno and Buffalmacco, having stolen a pig from Calandrino, make him try the ordeal with ginger boluses and sack and give him (instead of the ginger) two dogballs compounded with aloes, whereby it appeareth that he himself hath had the pig and they make him pay blackmail, and he would not have them tell his wife 383 |
| The Seventh Story. A scholar loveth a widow lady, who, being enamoured of another, causeth him spend one winter's night in the snow awaiting her, and he after contriveth, by his sleight, to have her abide naked, all one mid-July day, on the summit of a tower, exposed to flies and gads and sun 387 |
| The Eighth Story. Two men consorting together, one lieth with the wife of his comrade, who, becoming aware thereof, doth with her on such wise that the other is shut up in a chest, upon which he lieth with his wife, he being inside the while 403 |
| The Ninth Story. Master Simone the physician, having been induced by Bruno and Buffalmacco to repair to a certain place by night, there to be made a member of a company, that goeth a-roving, is cast by Buffalmacco into a trench full of ordure and there left 406 |
| The Tenth Story. A certain woman of Sicily artfully despoileth a merchant of that which he had brought to Palermo; but he, making believe to have returned thither with much greater plenty of merchandise than before, borroweth money of her and leaveth her water and tow in payment 418 |
| The First Story. Madam Francesca, being courted of one Rinuccio Palermini and one Alessandro Chiarmontesi and loving neither the one nor the other, adroitly riddeth herself of both by causing one enter for dead into a sepulchre and the other bring him forth thereof for dead, on such wise that they cannot avail to accomplish the condition imposed 428 |
| The Second Story. An abbess, arising in haste and in the dark to find one of her nuns, who had been denounced to her, in bed with her lover and, thinking to cover her head with her coif, donneth instead thereof the breeches of a priest who is abed with her; the which the accused nun observing and making her aware thereof, she is acquitted and hath leisure to be with her lover 432 |
| The Third Story. Master Simone, at the instance of Bruno and Buffalmacco and Nello, maketh Calandrino believe that he is with child; wherefore he giveth them capons and money for medicines and recovereth without bringing forth 435 |
| The Fourth Story. Cecco Fortarrigo gameth away at Buonconvento all his good and the monies of Cecco Angiolieri [his master;] moreover, running after the latter, in his shirt, and avouching that he hath robbed him, he causeth him be taken of the countryfolk; then, donning Angiolieri's clothes and mounting his palfrey, he maketh off and leaveth the other in his shirt 438 |
| The Fifth Story. Calandrino falleth in love with a wench and Bruno writeth him a talisman, wherewith when he toucheth her, she goeth with him; and his wife finding them together, there betideth him grievous trouble and annoy 441 |
| The Sixth Story. Two young gentlemen lodge the night with an innkeeper, whereof one goeth to lie with the host's daughter, whilst his wife unwittingly coucheth with the other; after which he who lay with the girl getteth him to bed with her father and telleth him all, thinking to bespeak his comrade. Therewithal they come to words, but the wife, perceiving her mistake, entereth her daughter's bed and thence with certain words appeaseth everything 446 |
| The Seventh Story. Talano di Molese dreameth that a wolf mangleth all his wife's neck and face and biddeth her beware thereof; but she payeth no heed to his warning and it befalleth her even as he had dreamed 450 |
| The Eighth Story. Biondello cheateth Ciacco of a dinner, whereof the other craftily avengeth himself, procuring him to be shamefully beaten 451 |
| The Ninth Story. Two young men seek counsel of Solomon, one how he may be loved and the other how he may amend his froward wife, and in answer he biddeth the one love and the other get him to Goosebridge 454 |
| The Tenth Story. Dom Gianni, at the instance of his gossip Pietro, performeth a conjuration for the purpose of causing the latter's wife to become a mare; but, whenas he cometh to put on the tail, Pietro marreth the whole conjuration, saying that he will not have a tail 457 |
| The First Story. A knight in the king's service of Spain thinking himself ill guerdoned, the king by very certain proof showeth him that this is not his fault, but that of his own perverse fortune, and after largesseth him magnificently 462 |
| The Second Story. Ghino di Tacco taketh the Abbot of Cluny and having cured him of the stomach-complaint, letteth him go; whereupon the Abbot, returning to the court of Rome, reconcileth him with Pope Boniface and maketh him a Prior of the Hospitallers 464 |
| The Third Story. Mithridanes, envying Nathan his hospitality and generosity and going to kill him, falleth in with himself, without knowing him, and is by him instructed of the course he shall take to accomplish his purpose; by means whereof he findeth him, as he himself had ordered it, in a coppice and recognizing him, is ashamed and becometh his friend 468 |
| The Fourth Story. Messer Gentile de' Carisendi, coming from Modona, taketh forth of the sepulchre a lady whom he loveth and who hath been buried for dead. The lady, restored to life, beareth a male child and Messer Gentile restoreth her and her son to Niccoluccio Caccianimico, her husband 472 |
| The Fifth Story. Madam Dianora requireth of Messer Ansaldo a garden as fair in January as in May, and he by binding himself [to pay a great sum of money] to a nigromancer, giveth it to her. Her husband granteth her leave to do Messer Ansaldo's pleasure, but he, hearing of the former's generosity, absolveth her of her promise, whereupon the nigromancer, in his turn, acquitteth Messer Ansaldo of his bond, without willing aught of his 478 |
| The Sixth Story. King Charles the Old, the Victorious, falleth enamoured of a young girl, but after, ashamed of his fond thought, honourably marrieth both her and her sister 481 |
| The Seventh Story. King Pedro of Arragon, coming to know the fervent love borne him by Lisa, comforteth the lovesick maid and presently marrieth her to a noble young gentleman; then, kissing her on the brow, he ever after avoucheth himself her knight 485 |
| The Eighth Story. Sophronia, thinking to marry Gisippus, becometh the wife of Titus Quintius Fulvus and with him betaketh herself to Rome, whither Gisippus cometh in poor case and conceiving himself slighted of Titus, declareth, so he may die, to have slain a man. Titus, recognizing him, to save him, avoucheth himself to have done the deed, and the true murderer, seeing this, discovereth himself; whereupon they are all three liberated by Octavianus and Titus, giving Gisippus his sister to wife, hath all his good in common with him 491 |
| The Ninth Story. Saladin, in the disguise of a merchant, is honourably entertained by Messer Torello d'Istria, who, presently undertaking the [third] crusade, appointeth his wife a term for her marrying again. He is taken [by the Saracens] and cometh, by his skill in training hawks, under the notice of the Soldan, who knoweth him again and discovering himself to him, entreateth him with the utmost honour. Then, Torello falling sick for languishment, he is by magical art transported in one night [from Alexandria] to Pavia, where, being recognized by his wife at the bride-feast held for her marrying again, he returneth with her to his own house 503 |
| The Tenth Story. The Marquess of Saluzzo, constrained by the prayers of his vassals to marry, but determined to do it after his own fashion, taketh to wife the daughter of a peasant and hath of her two children, whom he maketh believe to her to put to death; after which, feigning to be grown weary of her and to have taken another wife, he letteth bring his own daughter home to his house, as she were his new bride, and turneth his wife away in her shift; but, finding her patient under everything, he fetcheth her home again, dearer than ever, and showing her her children grown great, honoureth and letteth honour her as marchioness 510 |
| TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. |
| LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR TO A FRIEND. |
| CHRISTIANITY UNVEILED |
| CHAP. I. | INTRODUCTION. |
| CHAP. II. | SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS. |
| CHAP. III. | SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. |
| CHAP. IV. | OF THE CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY, |
| CHAP. V. | OF REVELATION. |
| CHAP. VI. | OF THE PROOFS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. |
| CHAP. VII. | OF THE MYSTERIES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. |
| CHAP. VIII. | MYSTERIES AND DOGMAS OF CHRISTIANITY. |
| CHAP. IX. | OF THE RITES AND MYSTERIOUS CEREMONIES |
| CHAP. X. | OF THE INSPIRED WRITINGS OF THE CHRISTIANS. |
| CHAP. XI. | OF CHRISTIAN MORALITY. |
| CHAP. XII. | OF THE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES. |
| CHAP. XIII. | OF THE PRACTICE AND DUTIES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. |
| CHAP. XIV. | OF THE POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. |
| CHAP. XV. | OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OR PRIESTHOOD. |
| CHAP. XVI. | CONCLUSION. |
PREFACE TO FIFTH AND AMERICAN EDITION.
IMPEACHMENT OF THE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK.
| CHAPTER I. | INTRODUCTORY |
| CHAPTER II. | THE REIGN OF GEORGE I |
| CHAPTER III. | THE REIGN OF GEORGE II |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE REIGN OF GEORGE III |
| CHAPTER V. | THE REIGN OF GEORGE IV |
| CHAPTER VI. | THE REIGN OF WILLIAM IV |
| CHAPTER VII. | THE PRESENT REIGN |
By Charles Bradlaugh ('Iconoclast')
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| BOOK I. | GENESIS |
| BOOK II. | EXODUS |
| BOOK III. | LEVITICUS |
| BOOK IV. | NUMBERS |
| BOOK V. | DEUTERONOMY |
| BOOK VI. | JOSHUA |
| BOOK VII. | JUDGES |
| BOOK VIII. | RUTH |
| BOOK IX. | SAMUEL |
HERESY: ITS UTILITY and MORALITY
| CHAPTER I. | INTRODUCTION |
| CHAPTER II. | THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER III. | THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
PREFACE.
THE BATTLE OF THE PRESS, AS TOLD IN THE LIFE OF RICHARD CARLILE
| PART I. | ||
| CHAPTER I. | INTRODUCTORY | |
| CHAPTER II. | HIS BIRTH, YOUTH, AND EARLY MANHOOD | |
| CHAPTER III. | THE MANCHESTER MASSACRE | |
| CHAPTER IV. | RECORD OF PERSECUTION | |
| CHAPTER V. | THE TRIAL | |
| CHAPTER VI. | TAKEN TO PRISON | |
| CHAPTER VI. | SIR ROBERT GIFFORD AND THE ODIOUS "SIX ACTS" | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THE VICE SOCIETY | |
| CHAPTER IX. | THE CATO STREET PLOT | |
| CHAPTER X. | HOW THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT | |
| CHAPTER XI. | FIRE AND INSANITY | |
| CHAPTER XII. | FREE DISCUSSION | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | LIBERATION AND AFTER | |
| CHAPTER XIV. | THE "PROMPTER" AND THE ROTUNDA | |
| CHAPTER XV. | SCATTERED THREADS | |
| PART II. | ||
| CHAPTER I. | "THE STORY OF ISIS" THE LADY OF THE ROTUNDA | |
| CHAPTER II. | ISIS TO RICHARD CARLILE | |
| CHAPTER III. | LETTERS TO "ISIS" | |
| CHAPTER IV. | IN PRISON AGAIN! | |
| CHAPTER V. | LETTERS TO TURTON | |
| CHAPTER VI. | CARLILE'S LAST YEARS | |
| CHAPTER VII. | THE LAST DAYS OF ISIS | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | MEMORIES | |
| CHAPTER IX. | SOME WHO HELPED IN THE GOOD WORK | |
| APPENDICES. | ||
| APPENDIX I. | TRIAL OF MR. CARLILE | |
| APPENDIX II. | A LETTER TO LORD SIDMOUTH | |
| APPENDIX III. | DEDICATION | |
| APPENDIX IV. | LIST OF CARLILE'S IMPRISONMENTS |
| LETTER |
| PRINCIPLES OF NATURE, by Elihu Palmer |
| COPY OF WARRANT. |
| COPY OF COMMITTAL |
PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN CREEDS: THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING
| PREFACE TO THE COMPLETE EDITION |
| PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. |
| PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. |
| PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. |
| INTRODUCTION. |
| AN INQUIRY INTO THE REALITY OF DIVINE REVELATION. |
| PART I. | ||
| CHAPTER I | MIRACLES IN RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY | |
| CHAPTER II | MIRACLES IN RELATION TO THE ORDER OF NATURE | |
| CHAPTER III | REASON IN RELATION TO THE ORDER OF NATURE | |
| CHAPTER IV | THE AGE OF MIRACLES | |
| CHAPTER V | THE PERMANENT STREAM OF MIRACULOUS PRETENSION | |
| CHAPTER VI | MIRACLES IN RELATION TO IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION | |
| PART II | THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS | |
| INTRODUCTION | ||
| CHAPTER I | CLEMENT OF ROME—THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS—THE PASTOR OF HERMAS | |
| CHAPTER II | THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS—THE EPISTLE OF POLYCARP | |
| CHAPTER III | JUSTIN MARTYR | |
| CHAPTER IV | HEGESIPPUS—PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS |
"Credulity is as real, if not so great, a sin as unbelief."
Archbishop Trench.
"The abnegation of reason is not the evidence of faith, but the confession of despair."
Canon Lightfoot.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I.— | Outgrowing the Gods | 9 |
| II.— | Life and Mind | 18 |
| III.— | What is Freethought? | 37 |
| IV.— | Rebellion and Reform | 51 |
| V.— | The Struggle for the Child | 61 |
| VI.— | The Nature of Religion | 72 |
| VII.— | The Utility of Religion | 88 |
| VIII.— | Freethought and God | 101 |
| IX.— | Freethought and Death | 111 |
| X.— | This World and the Next | 123 |
| XI.— | Evolution | 134 |
| XII.— | Darwinism and Design | 146 |
| XIII.— | Ancient and Modern | 162 |
| XIV.— | Morality Without God.—I. | 172 |
| XV.— | Morality Without God.—II. | 182 |
| XVI.— | Christianity and Morality | 193 |
| XVII.— | Religion and Persecution | 204 |
| XVIII.— | What is to Follow Religion? | 223 |
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| TRANSLATORS PREFACE |
| ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION, ORIGINAL |
| CHAPTER I | ORIGIN OF THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPES |
| CHAPTER II | ENTERPRIZES OF THE POPES OF THE NINTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER III | TENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER IV | ENTERPRISES OF THE POPES OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER V | CONTESTS BETWEEN THE POPES AND THE SOVEREIGNS OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER VI | POWER OF THE POPES OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER VII | FOURTEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER VIII | FIFTEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER IX | POLICY OF THE POPES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER X | ATTEMPTS OF THE POPES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER XII | RECAPITULATION |
| CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | |
| ENDNOTES AND |
DETEAILED CONTENTS.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
| AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF OPINION ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES |
| DETAILED CONTENTS. |
| ORIGIN OF SPECIES. |
| INTRODUCTION. |
| CHAPTER I. | VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION |
| CHAPTER II. | VARIATION UNDER NATURE |
| CHAPTER III. | STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE |
| CHAPTER IV. | NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST |
| CHAPTER V. | LAWS OF VARIATION |
| CHAPTER VI. | DIFFICULTIES OF THE THEORY |
| CHAPTER VII. | MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION |
| CHAPTER VIII. | INSTINCT |
| CHAPTER IX. | HYBRIDISM |
| CHAPTER X. | ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD |
| CHAPTER XI. | ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS |
| CHAPTER XII. | GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION |
| CHAPTER XIII. | GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION—continued |
| CHAPTER XIV. | MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS |
| CHAPTER XV. | RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION |
GLOSSARY OF THE PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC TERMS USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.
INDEX.
| PREFACE. |
| HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE. |
| CHAPTER I. | THE ORIGIN OF SCIENCE. |
| CHAPTER II. | THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY.-ITS TRANSFORMATION ON ATTAINING IMPERIAL POWER.-ITS RELATIONS TO SCIENCE. |
| CHAPTER III. | CONFLICT RESPECTING THE DOCTRINE OF THE UNITY OF GOD.-THE FIRST OR SOUTHERN REFORMATION. |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE RESTORATION OF SCIENCE IN THE SOUTH. |
| CHAPTER V. | CONFLICT RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE SOUL.-DOCTRINE OF EMANATION AND ABSORPTION. |
| CHAPTER VI. | CONFLICT RESPECTING THE NATURE OF THE WORLD. |
| CHAPTER VII. | CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE AGE OF THE EARTH. |
| CHAPTER VIII. | CONFLICT RESPECTING THE CRITERION OF TRUTH. |
| CHAPTER IX. | CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSE. |
| CHAPTER X. | LATIN CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO MODERN CIVILIZATION. |
| CHAPTER XI. | SCIENCE IN RELATION TO MODERN CIVILIZATION. |
| CHAPTER XII. | THE IMPENDING CRISIS. INDICATIONS OF THE APPROACH OF A RELIGIOUS CRISIS.-THE PREDOMINATING CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THE ROMAN, PERCEIVES THIS, AND MAKES PREPARATION FOR IT.-PIUS IX CONVOKES AN OECUMENICAL COUNCIL-RELATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS TO THE PAPACY.-RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO SCIENCE, AS INDICATED BY THE ENCYCLICAL LETTER AND THE SYLLABUS. |
| PREFACE. | |
| CHAPTER I. | THE STORM BREWING |
| CHAPTER II. | OUR FIRST SUMMONS |
| CHAPTER III. | MR. BRADLAUGH INCLUDED |
| CHAPTER IV. | OUR INDICTMENT |
| CHAPTER V. | ANOTHER PROSECUTION |
| CHAPTER VI. | PREPARING FOR TRIAL |
| CHAPTER VII. | AT THE OLD BAILEY |
| CHAPTER VIII. | NEWGATE |
| CHAPTER IX. | THE SECOND TRIAL |
| CHAPTER X. | "BLACK MARIA." |
| CHAPTER XI. | HOLLOWAY GAOL |
| CHAPTER XII. | PRISON LIFE |
| CHAPTER XIII. | PARSON PLAFORD |
| CHAPTER XIV. | THE THIRD TRIAL |
| CHAPTER XV. | LOSS AND GAIN |
| CHAPTER XVI. | A LONG NIGHT |
| CHAPTER XVII. | DAYLIGHT |
| I. | INTRODUCTION |
| II. | THE BIBLE CANON |
| III. | THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE |
| IV. | MIRACLES AND WITCHCRAFT |
| V. | THE BIBLE AND FREETHOUGHT |
| VI. | MORALS AND MANNERS |
| VII. | POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS |
| VIII. | INSPIRATION |
| IX. | THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS |
| X. | THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND |
| XI. | AN ORIENTAL BOOK |
| XII. | FICTITIOUS SUPREMACY |
| PREFACE. |
| THE GOD-IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS. |
| INTRODUCTION. |
| CHAPTER I. | SEX THE FOUNDATION OF THE GOD-IDEA |
| CHAPTER II. | TREE, PLANT, AND FRUIT WORSHIP |
| CHAPTER III. | SUN-WORSHIP—FEMALE AND MALE ENERGIES IN THE SUN |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE DUAL GOD OF THE ANCIENTS A TRINITY ALSO |
| CHAPTER V. | SEPARATION OF THE FEMALE AND MALE ELEMENTS IN THE DEITY |
| CHAPTER VI. | CIVILIZATION OF AN ANCIENT RACE |
| CHAPTER VII. | CONCEALMENT OF THE EARLY DOCTRINES |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THE ORIGINAL GOD-IDEA OF THE ISRAELITES |
| CHAPTER IX. | THE PHOENICIAN AND HEBREW GOD SET OR SETH |
| CHAPTER X. | ANCIENT SPECULATIONS CONCERNING CREATION |
| CHAPTER XI. | FIRE AND PHALLIC WORSHIP |
| CHAPTER XII. | AN ATTEMPT TO PURIFY THE SENSUALIZED FAITHS |
| CHAPTER XIII. | CHRISTIANITY A CONTINUATION OF PAGANISM |
| CHAPTER XIV. | CHRISTIANITY A CONTINUATION OF PAGANISM—(Continued) |
| CHAPTER XV. | CHRISTIANITY IN IRELAND |
| CHAPTER XVI. | STONES OR COLUMNS AS THE DEITY |
| CHAPTER XVII. | SACRIFICES |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | THE CROSS AND A DYING SAVIOR |
| INTRODUCTION. |
| THE RULE OF THE MONK |
| PART THE FIRST. | ||
| CHAPTER I. | CLELIA | |
| CHAPTER II. | ATTILIO | |
| CHAPTER III. | THE CONSPIRACY | |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE MEETING OF THE CONSPIRATORS | |
| CHAPTER V. | THE INFANTICIDE | |
| CHAPTER VI. | THE ARREST | |
| CHAPTER VII. | THE LEGACY | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THE MENDICANT | |
| CHAPTER IX. | THE LIBERATOR | |
| CHAPTER X. | THE ORPHAN | |
| CHAPTER XI. | THE FLIGHT | |
| CHAPTER XII. | THE PETITION | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGER | |
| CHAPTER XIV. | SICCIO | |
| CHAPTER XV. | THE CORSINI PALACE | |
| CHAPTER XVI. | ENGLISH JULIA | |
| CHAPTER XVII. | RETRIBUTION | |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | THE EXILE | |
| CHAPTER XIX. | THE BATHS OF CARACALLA | |
| CHAPTER XX. | THE TRAITOR | |
| CHAPTER XXI. | THE TORTURE | |
| CHAPTER XXII. | THE BRIGANDS | |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | THE LIBERATOR | |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | THE YACHT | |
| CHAPTER XXV. | THE TEMPEST | |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | THE TOWER | |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | THE WITHDRAWAL | |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | THE FOREST | |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | THE CASTLE | |
| CHAPTER XXX. | IRENE | |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | GASPARO | |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | THE SURPRISE | |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | THE ASSAULT | |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | A VALUABLE ACQUISITION | |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | THE AMELIORATION OF MANKIND | |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | THE SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGES | |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | THE ANTIQUARY | |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | THE ROMAN ARMY | |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | MATRIMONY | |
| CHAPTER XL. | THE CHRISTENING | |
| CHAPTER XLI. | THE RECLUSE | |
| CHAPTER XLII. | THE THIRTIETH OF APRIL | |
| CHAPTER XLIII. | THE COMBAT | |
| CHAPTER XLIV. | THE OLD OAK | |
| CHAPTER XLV. | THE HONOR OF THE FLAG | |
| CHAPTER XLVI. | THE RURAL SUPPER | |
| CHAPTER XLVII. | GASPERO'S STORY | |
| CHAPTER XLVIII. | GASPARO'S STORY CONTINUED | |
| CHAPTER XLIX. | THE PURSUIT | |
| PART THE SECOND. | ||
| CHAPTER L. | THE PILGRIMAGE | |
| CHAPTER LI. | THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD | |
| CHAPTER LII. | THE SPY IN VENICE | |
| CHAPTER LIII. | THE "GOVERNMENT" | |
| CHAPTER LIV. | THE SENTENCE OF DEATH | |
| CHAPTER LV. | DEATH TO THE PRIESTS | |
| CHAPTER LVI. | PRINCE T——— | |
| CHAPTER LVII. | THE DUEL | |
| CHAPTER LVIII. | ROME | |
| CHAPTER LIX. | VENICE AND THE BUCENTAUER | |
| CHAPTER LX. | THE BURIAL | |
| CHAPTER LXI. | THE NARRATIVE | |
| CHAPTER LXII. | THE NARRATIVE OF MARZIO CONTINUED | |
| PART THE THIRD. | ||
| CHAPTER LXIII. | THE CAIROLIS AND THEIR SEVENTY COMPANIONS | |
| CHAPTER LXIV. | CUCCHI AND HIS COMRADES | |
| CHAPTER LXV. | THE MONTIGIANIS | |
| CHAPTER LXVI. | THE OVERTHROW | |
| CHAPTER LXVII. | THE FINAL CATASTROPHE | |
| CHAPTER LXVIII. | THE SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE | |
| APPENDIX. | ||
| I. | THE FAMILY OF GENERAL GARIBALDI | |
| II. | THE CAMPAIGN OF MENTANA | |
| III. | GARIBALDI AND THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT | |
| IV. | NOTES |
| PREFACE. |
| PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. |
| EXPLANATION |
| ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY. |
| THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS. |
| CHAPTER I. | RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS |
| CHAPTER II. | MESSIANIC PROPHECIES |
| CHAPTER III. | PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT |
| CHAPTER IV. | MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS |
| CHAPTER V. | VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS |
| CHAPTER VI. | STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE |
| CHAPTER VII. | ANGELS, SHEPHERDS AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS |
| CHAPTER IX. | TITLES OF THE SAVIORS |
| CHAPTER X. | THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH |
| CHAPTER XI. | CHRIST'S GENEALOGY |
| CHAPTER XII. | THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY |
| CHAPTER XIII. | THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY |
| CHAPTER XIV. | THE SAVIORS; KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD |
| CHAPTER XV. | THE SAVIORS WERE REAL PERSONAGES |
| CHAPTER XVI. | SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED |
| CHAPTER XVII. | THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL |
| CHAPTER XIX. | RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS |
| CHAPTER XX. | REAPPEARANCE AND ASCENSION OF THE SAVIORS |
| CHAPTER XXI. | THE ATONEMENT—ITS ORIENTAL OR HEATHEN ORIGIN |
| CHAPTER XXII. | THE HOLY GHOST OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | THE DIVINE "WORD" OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | THE TRINITY VERY ANCIENTLY A CURRENT HEATHEN DOCTRINE |
| CHAPTER XXV. | ABSOLUTION, AND THE CONFESSION OF SINS, OF HEATHEN ORIGIN |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | ORIGIN OF BAPTISM BY WATER, FIRE, BLOOD AND THE HOLY GHOST |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | THE SACRAMENT OR EUCHARIST OF HEATHEN ORIGIN |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | ANOINTING WITH OIL OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | HOW MEN, INCLUDING JESUS CHRIST, CAME TO BE WORSHIPED AS GODS |
| CHAPTER XXX. | SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | CHRISTIANITY DERIVED FROM HEATHEN AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX STRIKING ANALOGIES BETWEEN CHRIST AND CHRISHNA |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | APOLLONIUS, OSIRIS, MAGUS, ETC.—GODS |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | THE THREE PILLARS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH—MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, AND PRECEPTS |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | LOGICAL OR COMMON SENSE VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF DIVINE INCARNATION |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | PHILOSOPHICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY |
| CHAPTER XL. | A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST |
| CHAPTER XLI. | THE PRECEPTS AND PRACTICAL LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST; HIS TWO HUNDRED ERRORS |
| CHAPTER XLII. | CHRIST AS A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM |
| CHAPTER XLIII. | CONVERSION, REPENTANCE, AND "GETTING RELIGION" OF HEATHEN ORIGIN |
| CHAPTER XLIV. | THE MORAL LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY |
| CHAPTER XLV. | CONCLUSION AND REVIEW |
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| NOTES |
| A Young Lady Confessing to a Priest |
| The Mother Abess Strangling the Infant |
| The Father in pursuit of the Priest |
| PREFACE. |
| SYNOPSIS OF POPERY, AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. |
| ORIGIN OF THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPE. |
| POPISH BISHOPS AND PRIESTS ABSOLVE ALLEGIANCE TO PROTESTANT GOVERNMENTS. |
| DETAILED CONTENTS |
| PUBLISHER'S NOTE |
| THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE |
| GOOD SENSE WITHOUT GOD |
| APOLOGUE |
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| 1 | APOLOGUE |
| 2 | What is Theology? |
| 3 | What is Theology? |
| 4 | Man is not born with any ideas of Religion |
| 5 | It is not necessary to believe in a God |
| 6 | Religion is founded on credulity |
| 7 | All religion is an absurdity |
| 8 | The idea of God is impossible |
| 9 | On the Origin of Superstition |
| 10 | On the Origin of all Religion |
| 11 | Religious fears expose men to become a prey to imposters |
| 12 | Religion seduces ignorance by the aid of the marvellous |
| 13 | Religion seduces ignorance by the aid of the marvellous |
| 14 | No Religion, if not ages of Stupidity and Barbarism |
| 15 | All Religion was produced by the desire of domination |
| 16 | What serves as a basis to Religion is most uncertain |
| 17 | It is impossible to be convinced of the existence of a God |
| 18 | It is impossible to be convinced of the existence of a God |
| 19 | The existence of God is not proved |
| 20 | It explains nothing to say, that God is a spirit |
| 21 | Spirituality is an absurdity p> |
| 22 | Whatever exists is derived from Matter |
| 23 | What is the metaphysical God of modern Theology? |
| 24 | Less unreasonable to adore the Sun, than adore a spiritual Deity |
| 25 | A spiritual Deity is incapable of volition and action |
| 26 | What is God? |
| 27 | Some remarkable Contradictions in Theology |
| 28 | To adore God, is to adore a fiction |
| 29 | Atheism is authorised by the infinity of God |
| 30 | Believing not safer than not believing in God |
| 31 | Belief in God is a habit acquired in infancy |
| 32 | Belief in God is a prejudice ov successive generations |
| 33 | On the Origin of Prejudices |
| 34 | On the effects of Prejudices |
| 35 | Theology must be instilled before the age of reason |
| 36 | The wonders of nature do not prove the existence of God |
| 37 | Nature may be explained by natural causes |
| 38 | Nature may be explained by natural causes |
| 39 | The world has never been created: Matter moves of itself |
| 40 | The world has never been created: Matter moves of itself |
| 41 | Motion is essential to Matter: no Spiritual Mover |
| 42 | The existence of Man does not prove the existence of God |
| 43 | Neither Man nor the Universe are the effects of chance |
| 44 | Order of the Universe does not prove the existence of a God |
| 45 | Order of the Universe does not prove the existence of a God |
| 46 | Absurd to adore a divine intelligence |
| 47 | Qualities given God contrary to the Essence attributed to him |
| 48 | Qualities given God contrary to the Essence attributed to him |
| 49 | Absurd to say that the human race is the object of the Universe |
| 50 | God is not made for Man, nor Man for God |
| 51 | Untrue that the object of the Universe was to render Man happy |
| 52 | What is called Providence is a word without meaning |
| 53 | This pretended Providence is the enemy of Man |
| 54 | The world is not governed by an intelligent being |
| 55 | God cannot be considered immutable |
| 56 | Good and evil are the necessary effects of natural causes |
| 57 | The consolations of Theology and paradise are imaginary |
| 58 | Another romantic reverie |
| 59 | Vain that Theology attempts to clear its God from human defects |
| 60 | Impossible to believe God is of infinite goodness and power |
| 61 | Impossible to believe God is of infinite goodness and power |
| 62 | Theology's God a monster of absurdity and injustice |
| 63 | All Religion inspires contemptible fears |
| 64 | Religion, the same as the most somber and servile Superstition |
| 65 | The love of God is impossible |
| 66 | An eternally tormenting God is a most detestable being |
| 67 | Theology is a tissue of palpable contradictions |
| 68 | The pretended works of God do not prove Divine Perfections |
| 69 | The perfection of God and the pretended creation of angels |
| 70 | Theology preaches Omnipotence of its God, yet makes impotent |
| 71 | Per all religious systems, God is capricious and foolish |
| 72 | It is absurd to say that Evil does not proceed from God |
| 73 | The foreknowledge of God proves his cruelty |
| 74 | Absurdity of the stories concerning Original Sin, and Satan |
| 75 | The Devil, like Religion, was invented to enrich the priests |
| 76 | God has no right to punish man |
| 77 | It is absurd to say, that the conduct of God a mystery |
| 78 | Ought we look for consolation, from the author of our misery? |
| 79 | God who punishes the faults which he might have prevented |
| 80 | What is called Free Will is an absurdity |
| 81 | But we must not conclude that Society has no right to punish |
| 82 | Refutation of the arguments in favour of Free Will |
| 83 | Refutation of the arguments in favour of Free Will |
| 84 | God, if there were a God, would not be free |
| 85 | According to Theology, man is not free a single instant |
| 86 | There is no evil, and no sin, but must be attributed to God |
| 87 | The prayers prove dissatisfaction of the divine will |
| 88 | Absurd to imagine repair of misfortune in another world |
| 89 | Theology justifies the evil permitted by its God |
| 90 | Jehovah, exterminations prove an unjust and barbarous God |
| 91 | Is God a generous, equitable, and tender father? |
| 92 | Man's life, deposes against goodness of a pretended God |
| 93 | We owe no gratitude to what is called Providence |
| 94 | It is folly to suppose that Man is the favourite of God |
| 95 | A comparison between Man and brutes |
| 96 | There are no animals so detestable as Tyrants |
| 97 | A refutation of the excellence of Man |
| 98 | An oriental Tale |
| 99 | It is madness to see nothing but the goodness of God |
| 100 | What is the Soul? |
| 101 | The existence of a Soul is an absurd supposition |
| 102 | It is evident that Man dies in toto |
| 103 | Incontestible arguments against the Spirituality of the Soul |
| 104 | On the absurdity of the supernatural causes |
| 105 | It is false that Materialism degrades |
| 106 | It is false that Materialism degrades |
| 107 | Idea of future life only useful to priest's trade |
| 108 | It is false that the idea of a future life is consoling |
| 109 | All religious principles are derived from the imagination |
| 110 | Religion a system to reconciles contradictions by mysteries |
| 111 | Absurdity of all Mysteries, invented for the interests of Priests |
| 112 | Absurdity of all Mysteries, invented for the interests of Priests |
| 113 | Absurdity of all Mysteries, invented for the interests of Priests |
| 114 | An universal God ought to have revealed an universal Religion |
| 115 | Religion is unnecessary, as it is unintelligible |
| 116 | All Religions are rendered ridiculous by the multitude of creeds |
| 117 | Opinion of a famous Theologian |
| 118 | The God of the Deists is not less contradictory |
| 119 | Aged belief in a Deity does not prove the existence of God |
| 120 | All Gods are savage: all Religions are monuments of ignorance |
| 121 | All religious usages bear marks of stupidity and barbarism |
| 122 | The more a religion is ancient and general, the more suspect |
| 123 | Scepticism in religious matters from very superficial study |
| 124 | Revelations examined |
| 125 | Where is the proof that God ever shewed himself or spoke to Men |
| 126 | There is nothing that proves miracles to have been ever performed |
| 127 | Strange that God spoke differently to different sects |
| 128 | Obscurity and suspicious origin of oracles |
| 129 | Absurdity of all miracles |
| 130 | Refutation of the reasoning of Pascal on miracles |
| 131 | Every new revelation is necessarily false |
| 132 | Blood of martyrs testifies against the truth of miracles |
| 133 | Fanaticism of martyrs, and the interested zeal of missionaries |
| 134 | Theology makes its God an enemy to Reason and Common Sense |
| 135 | Faith irreconcilable with Reason; and Reason preferable to Faith |
| 136 | To what absurd and ridiculous sophisms the religious are reduced |
| 137 | Ought a man to believe, on the assurance of another man |
| 138 | Faith can take root only in feeble, ignorant, or slothful minds |
| 139 | That one Religion has greater pretensions to truth an absurdity |
| 140 | Religion is unnecessary to Morality |
| 141 | Religion the weakest barrier that can be opposed to the passions |
| 142 | Honour is a more salutary and powerful bond than Religion |
| 143 | Religion does not restrain the passions of kings |
| 144 | Origin of "the divine right of kings" |
| 145 | Religion is fatal to political ameliorations |
| 146 | Christianity preaching implicit obedience to despotism |
| 147 | One object of religious principles: eternize the tyranny of kings |
| 148 | Fatal it is to persuade kings they are responsible to God alone |
| 149 | A devout king is the scourge of his kingdom |
| 150 | Tyranny finds Religion a weak obstacle to the despair of the people |
| 151 | Religion favours the wickedness of princes |
| 152 | What is an enlightened Sovereign? |
| 153 | Of the prevailing passions and crimes of the priesthood |
| 154 | The quackery of priests |
| 155 | Religion has corrupted Morality, and produced innumerable evils |
| 156 | Every Religion is intolerant |
| 157 | The evils of a state Religion |
| 158 | Religion legitimates and authorizes crime |
| 159 | The argument, that evils attributed to Religion are faults of men |
| 160 | Religion is incompatible with Morality |
| 161 | The Morality of the Gospel is impracticable |
| 162 | A society of Saints would be impossible |
| 163 | Human nature is not depraved |
| 164 | Concerning the effects of Jesus Christ's mission |
| 165 | The remission of sins was invented for the interest of priests |
| 166 | Who fear God? |
| 167 | Hell is an absurd invention |
| 168 | The bad foundation of religious morals |
| 169 | Christian Charity, as preached and practised by Theologians!!! |
| 170 | Confession, priestcraft's gold mine |
| 171 | Supposition of the existence of a God unnecessary to Morality |
| 172 | Supernatural Morality are fatal to the public welfare |
| 173 | The union of Church and State is a calamity |
| 174 | National Religions are ruinous |
| 175 | Religion paralyses Morality |
| 176 | Fatal consequences of Devotion |
| 177 | The idea of a future life is not consoling to man |
| 178 | An Atheist is fully as conscientious as a religious man |
| 179 | An Atheistical king far preferable to a religious king |
| 180 | Philosophy produces Morality |
| 181 | Religious opinions have little influence upon conduct |
| 182 | Reason leads man to Atheism |
| 183 | Fear alone makes Theists |
| 184 | Can we, and ought we, to love God? |
| 185 | God and Religion are proved to be absurdities |
| 186 | The existence of God, has not yet been demonstrated |
| 187 | Priests are more actuated by self-interest, than unbelievers |
| 188 | Presumption, and badness, more in priests, than in Atheists |
| 189 | Prejudices last but for a time |
| 190 | What if priests the apostles of reason |
| 191 | If Philosophy were substituted for Religion! |
| 192 | Recantation of an unbeliever at the point of death proves nothing |
| 193 | It is not true that Atheism breaks the bonds of society |
| 194 | Refutation of the opinion, that Religion necessary for the vulgar |
| 195 | Logical systems are not adapted to the capacity of the vulgar |
| 196 | On the futility and danger of Theology |
| 197 | On the evils produced by implicit faith |
| 198 | On the evils produced by implicit faith |
| 199 | All Religions were established by impostors, in days of ignorance |
| 200 | All Religions borrow from one another ridiculous ceremonies |
| 201 | Theology has always diverted philosophy from its right path |
| 202 | Theology explains nothing |
| 203 | Theology has always fettered Morality, and retarded progress |
| 204 | Theology has always fettered Morality, and retarded progress |
| 205 | Religion is an extravagance and a calamity |
| 206 | Religion prevents us from seeing the true causes of misfortunes |
| NAIGEON'S PREFACE. |
| LETTERS TO EUGENIA |
| LETTER I | Of the Sources of Credulity, and of the Motives which should lead to an examination of religion |
| LETTER II | Of the Ideas which Religion gives us of the Divinity |
| LETTER III | An Examination of the Holy Scriptures, of the Nature of the Christian Religion, and of the Proofs upon which Christianity is founded |
| LETTER IV | Of the fundamental dogmas of the Christian Religion |
| LETTER V | Of the Immortality of the Soul, and of the Dogma of another Life |
| LETTER VI | Of the Mysteries, Sacraments, and Religious Ceremonies of Christianity |
| LETTER VII | Of the pious Rites, Prayers, and Austerities of Christianity |
| LETTER VIII | Of Evangelical Virtues and Christian Perfection |
| LETTER IX | Of the advantages contributed to Government by Religion |
| LETTER X | On the Advantages Religion confers on those who profess it |
| LETTER XI | Of Human or Natural Morality |
| LETTER XII | Of the small Consequence to be attached to Men's Speculations, and the Indulgence which should be extended to them |
| PREFACE |
| LIBERTY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY |
| CHAPTER I. | NAPOLEON AND HIS WORK |
| CHAPTER II. | FRUITS OF PEACE |
| CHAPTER III. | DEMOCRATS AND GARRISONIANS |
| CHAPTER IV. | EMANCIPATION |
| CHAPTER V. | EMERSON AND OTHER TRANSCENDENTALISTS |
| CHAPTER VI. | PLATFORM VERSUS PULPIT |
| CHAPTER VII. | THE EVOLUTIONISTS |
| APPENDIX: SUNDAY RECREATION |
| LIST OF DATES |
| PREFACE | |
| CHAPTER I | CONCERNING BYGONES PREFATORY |
| CHAPTER II | PERSONAL INCIDENTS |
| CHAPTER III | OTHER INSTANCES |
| CHAPTER IV | FIRST STEPS IN LITERATURE |
| CHAPTER V | GEORGE ELIOT AND GEORGE HENRY LEWES |
| CHAPTER VI | WHEN BIRMINGHAM WAS A TOWN |
| CHAPTER VII | THE TENTH OF APRIL, 1848—ITS INCREDIBILITIES |
| CHAPTER VIII | THE CHARTISTS OF FICTION |
| CHAPTER IX | THE OLD POSTILLION |
| CHAPTER X | MEETING BREAKERS—LIST OF THOSE PAID FOR DOING IT |
| CHAPTER XI | TROUBLE WITH HER MAJESTY |
| CHAPTER XII | UNFORESEEN QUALITIES IN PUBLIC MEN |
| CHAPTER XIII | THE COBDEN SCHOOL |
| CHAPTER XIV | HARRIET MARTINEAU, THE DEAF GIRL OF NORWICH |
| CHAPTER XV | HARRIET MARTIN EAU—FURTHER INCIDENTS IN HER SINGULAR CAREER |
| CHAPTER XVI | THE THREE NEWMANS |
| CHAPTER XVII | MAZZINI IN ENGLAND-INCIDENTS IN HIS CAREER |
| CHAPTER XVIII | MAZZINI THE CONSPIRATOR |
| CHAPTER XIX | GARIBALDI—THE SOLDIER OF LIBERTY |
| CHAPTER XX | THE STORY OF THE BRITISH LEGION—NEVER BEFORE TOLD |
| CHAPTER XXI | JOHN STUART MILL, TEACHER OF THE PEOPLE |
| CHAPTER XXII | JOHN STUART MILL, TEACHER OF THE PEOPLE |
| CHAPTER XXIII | ABOUT MR. GLADSTONE |
| Holyoake | Parker | Lewes | Cobden | Martineau | Newman | Mazzini | Mario | Garibaldi | Mill |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. GLADSTONE |
| CHAPTER XXV. | HERBERT SPENCER, THE THINKER |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | SINGULAR CAREER OF MR. DISRAELI |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | THE PERIL OF SCRUPLES |
| CHAPTER XXX. | TAKING SIDES |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | THINGS WHICH WENT AS THEY WOULD |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | STORY OF THE LAMBETH PALACE GROUNDS |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | SOCIAL WONDERS ACROSS THE WATER |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH AT SEA |
| CHAPTER XXXV. | ADVENTURES IN THE STREETS |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. | LIMPING THRIFT |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. | MISTRUST OF MODERATION |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. | PENAL CHRISTIANITY |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. | TWO SUNDAYS |
| CHAPTER XL. | BYWAYS OF LIBERTY |
| CHAPTER XLI. | LAWYERS' LICENCE |
| CHAPTER XLII. | CHRISTIAN DAYS |
| CHAPTER XLIII. | NEW CONVICTIONS WHICH CAME UNSOUGHT |
| CHAPTER XLIV. | DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING MEN |
| CHAPTER XLV. | IDEAS FOR THE YOUNG |
| CHAPTER XLVI. | EXPERIENCES ON THE WARPATH |
| CHAPTER XLVII. | LOOKING BACKWARDS |
| CHAPTER I. | INTRODUCTORY |
| CHAPTER II. | THE TERM SECULARISM |
| CHAPTER III. | PRINCIPLES OF SECULARISM DEFINED |
| CHAPTER IV. | LAWS OF SECULAR CONTROVERSY |
| CHAPTER V. | MAXIMS OF ASSOCIATION |
| CHAPTER VI. | THE SECULAR GUILD |
| CHAPTER VII. | ORGANIZATION INDICATED |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THE PLACE OF SECULARISM |
| CHAPTER IX. | CHARACTERISTICS OF SECULARISM |
PREFACE.
THE HISTORY OF THE LAST TRIAL BY JURY FOR ATHEISM.
| CHAPTER I. | BEFORE THE IMPRISONMENT |
| CHAPTER II. | THE TRIAL |
| CHAPTER III. | AFTER THE SENTENCE |
| CHAPTER IV. | AFTER THE LIBERATION |
| CHAPTER I. | THE LOGIC OF THE SCHOOLS |
| CHAPTER II. | LOCKE-LOGIC |
| CHAPTER III. | LOGICAL TRUTH |
| CHAPTER IV. | DISCOVERY OF TRUTH |
| CHAPTER V. | FACTS |
| CHAPTER VI. | SCIENCE |
| CHAPTER VII. | PROPOSITIONS |
| CHAPTER VIII. | DEFINITIONS |
| CHAPTER IX. | SYLLOGISMS |
| CHAPTER X. | INDUCTION |
| CHAPTER XI. | DETECTION OF FALLACIES |
| CHAPTER XII. | SCEPTICISM |
| CHAPTER XIII. | INTELLECTUAL DARING |
| CHAPTER XIV. | IDOLS |
| CHAPTER XV. | ILLUSTRATIVE EXERCISES |
| CHAPTER XVI. | TECHNICAL TERMS |
| PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. | |
| CHAPTER I. | OPEN THOUGHT THE FIRST STEP TO INTELLIGENCE |
| CHAPTER II. | THE QUESTION STATED |
| CHAPTER III. | THE FIRST STAGE OF FREE THOUGHT: ITS NATURE AND LIMITATION |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE SECOND STAGE OF FREE THOUGHT: ENTERPRISE |
| CHAPTER V. | CONQUESTS OF INVESTIGATION |
| CHAPTER VI. | STATIONARINESS OF CRITICISM |
| CHAPTER VII. | THIRD STAGE OF FREE THOUGHT—SECULARISM |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THREE PRINCIPLES VINDICATED |
| CHAPTER IX. | HOW SECULARISM AROSE |
| CHAPTER X. | HOW SECULARISM WAS DIFFUSED |
| CHAPTER XI. | SECULAR INSTRUCTION DISTINCT FROM SECULARISM |
| CHAPTER XII. | THE DISTINCTIVENESS MADE FURTHER EVIDENT |
| CHAPTER XIII. | SELF-DEFENSIVE FOR THE PEOPLE |
| CHAPTER XIV. | REJECTED TENETS REPLACED BY BETTER |
| CHAPTER XV. | MORALITY INDEPENDENT OF THEOLOGY |
| CHAPTER XVI. | ETHICAL CERTITUDE |
| CHAPTER XVII. | THE ETHICAL METHOD OF CONTROVERSY |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | ITS DISCRIMINATION |
| CHAPTER XIX. | APART FROM CHRISTIANISM |
| CHAPTER XX. | SECULARISM CREATES A NEW RESPONSIBILITY |
| CHAPTER XXI. | THROUGH OPPOSITION TO RECOGNITION |
| CHAPTER XXII. | SELF-EXTENDING PRINCIPLES |
| SECULARIST CEREMONIES. |
| ON MARRIAGE. |
| NAMING CHILDREN. |
| OVER THE DEAD. |
| PREFACE | |
| LIFE AND CHARACTER OF RICHARD CARLILE | |
| CHAPTER I | HIS PARENTAGE, APPRENTICESHIP, AND MARRIAGE |
| CHAPTER II | THE PUBLISHER AND THE PRISONER |
| CHAPTER III | THE EDITOR AND THE ATHEIST |
| CHAPTER IV | HIS DEATH AND CHARACTER |
| ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL |
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THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD 1776. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. "THE PAST RISES BEFORE ME LIKE A DREAM." |
"In the nature of things there can be no evidence to establish the claim of Inspiration."
| I | THE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE | |
| II | IS THE OLD TESTAMENT INSPIRED? | |
| III | THE TEN COMMANDMENTS | |
| THE STORY OF ACHAN | ||
| THE STORY OF ELISHA | ||
| THE STORY OF DANIEL | ||
| THE STORY OF JOSEPH | ||
| IV | WHAT IS IT ALL WORTH? | |
| V | WAS JEHOVAH A GOD OF LOVE? | |
| VI | JEHOVAH'S ADMINISTRATION | |
| VII | THE NEW TESTAMENT | |
| VIII | THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHRIST | |
| IX | IS CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE? | |
| X | WHY SHOULD WE PLACE CHRIST AT THE TOP AND SUMMIT OF THE HUMAN RACE? | |
| XI | INSPIRATION | |
| XII | THE REAL BIBLE |
| PREFACE. | |
| I. | SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES |
| II. | FREE SCHOOLS |
| III. | THE POLITICIANS |
| IV. | MAN AND WOMAN |
| V. | THE PENTATEUCH |
| VI. | MONDAY |
| VII. | TUESDAY |
| VIII. | WEDNESDAY |
| IX. | THURSDAY |
| X. | "HE MADE THE STARS ALSO" |
| XI. | FRIDAY |
| XII. | SATURDAY |
| XIII. | LET US MAKE MAN |
| XIV. | SUNDAY |
| XV. | THE NECESSITY FOR A GOOD MEMORY |
| XVI. | THE GARDEN |
| XVII. | THE FALL |
| XVIII. | DAMPNESS |
| XIX. | BACCHUS AND BABEL |
| XX. | FAITH IN FILTH |
| XXI. | THE HEBREWS |
| XXII. | THE PLAGUES |
| XXIII. | THE FLIGHT |
| XXIV. | CONFESS AND AVOID |
| XXV. | "INSPIRED" SLAVERY |
| XXVI. | "INSPIRED" MARRIAGE |
| XXVII. | "INSPIRED" WAR |
| XXVIII. | "INSPIRED" RELIGIOUS LIBERTY |
| XXIX. | CONCLUSION |
| PUBLISHERS' PREFACE |
| PHILOSOPHICAL PROEM |
| FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY |
| CHAPTER I. | TO LIMIT AT WILL THE NUMBER OF THEIR OFFSPRING |
| CHAPTER II. | ON GENERATION |
| CHAPTER III. | OF PROMOTING AND CHECKING CONCEPTION |
| CHAPTER IV. | REMARKS ON THE REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCT |
| APPENDIX |
| PREFACE TO NEW IMPRESSION. |
| PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. |
| MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION |
| CHAPTER I. | SYSTEMS OF MYTHOLOGY |
| CHAPTER II. | NEW SYSTEM PROPOSED |
| CHAPTER III. | THE MENTAL CONDITION OF SAVAGES—CONFUSION WITH NATURE—TOTEMISM |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE MENTAL CONDITION OF SAVAGES—MAGIC—METAMORPHOSIS—METAPHYSIC—PSYCHOLOGY |
| CHAPTER V. | NATURE MYTHS |
| CHAPTER VI. | NON-ARYAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN |
| CHAPTER VII. | INDO-ARYAN MYTHS—SOURCES OF EVIDENCE |
| CHAPTER VIII. | INDIAN MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN |
| CHAPTER IX. | GREEK MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD AND MAN |
| CHAPTER X. | GREEK COSMOGONIC MYTHS |
| CHAPTER XI. | SAVAGE DIVINE MYTHS |
| Facsimile of the Characters Of The Book Of Mormon |
| Stenhouse Plates |
| "Scripture" Chapter Headings |
| Order and Unity of the Kingdom Of God |
| Seal |
| Egyptian Papyri |
| Bank-note |
| List of Wives |
| CHAPTER I. | THE BIRTH OF JESUS, AND THE SUPERNATURAL EVENTS CONNECTED |
| CHAPTER II. | THE SUPERNATURAL TESTIMONIES DURING THE LIFETIME OF JESUS |
| CHAPTER III. | THE MIRACLES |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY |
| CHAPTER V. | THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF JESUS |
| CHAPTER VI. | CONCLUSION |
| LIFE OF JEAN MESLIER BY VOLTAIRE. |
| PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. |
| COMMON SENSE. |
| I. | APOLOGUE. |
| II | WHAT IS THEOLOGY? |
| III. | |
| IV | MAN BORN NEITHER RELIGIOUS NOR DEISTICAL. |
| V | IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BELIEVE IN A GOD |
| VI | RELIGION IS FOUNDED UPON CREDULITY. |
| VII | EVERY RELIGION IS AN ABSURDITY. |
| VIII | THE NOTION OF GOD IS IMPOSSIBLE. |
| IX | ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION. |
| X | ORIGIN OF ALL RELIGION. |
| XI | IN THE NAME OF RELIGION CHARLATANS TAKE ADVANTAGE |
| XII | RELIGION ENTICES IGNORANCE BY THE AID OF THE MARVELOUS. |
| XIII | CONTINUATION. |
| XIV | THERE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ANY RELIGION IF . . . |
| XV | ALL RELIGION WAS BORN OF THE DESIRE TO DOMINATE. |
| XVI | THAT WHICH SERVES AS A BASIS FOR ALL RELIGION IS VERY UNCERTAIN. |
| XVII | IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE CONVINCED OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. |
| XVIII | CONTINUATION. |
| XIX | THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IS NOT PROVED. |
| XX | TO SAY THAT GOD IS A SPIRIT, IS TO SPEAK WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING |
| XXI | SPIRITUALITY IS A CHIMERA. |
| XXII | ALL WHICH EXISTS SPRINGS FROM THE BOSOM OF MATTER. |
| XXIII | WHAT IS THE METAPHYSICAL GOD OF MODERN THEOLOGY? |
| XXIV | IT WOULD BE MORE RATIONAL TO WORSHIP THE SUN THAN A SPIRITUAL GOD. |
| XXV | A SPIRITUAL GOD IS INCAPABLE OF WILLING AND OF ACTING. |
| XXVI | WHAT IS GOD? |
| XXVII | REMARKABLE CONTRADICTIONS OF THEOLOGY. |
| XXVIII | TO ADORE GOD IS TO ADORE A FICTION. |
| XXIX | THE INFINITY OF GOD AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING THE DIVINE |
| XXX | IT IS NEITHER LESS NOR MORE CRIMINAL TO BELIEVE IN GOD THAN NOT TO |
| XXXI | THE BELIEF IN GOD IS NOTHING BUT A MECHANICAL HABITUDE |
| XXXII | IT IS A PREJUDICE WHICH HAS BEEN HANDED FROM FATHER TO CHILDREN |
| XXXIII | ORIGIN OF PREJUDICES. |
| XXXIV | HOW THEY TAKE ROOT AND SPREAD. |
| XXXV | MEN WOULD NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IN THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN THEOLOGY |
| XXXVI | THE WONDERS OF NATURE DO NOT PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. |
| XXXVII | THE WONDERS OF NATURE EXPLAIN THEMSELVES BY NATURAL CAUSES. |
| XXXVIII | CONTINUATION. |
| XXXIX | THE WORLD HAS NOT BEEN CREATED, AND MATTER MOVES BY ITSELF. |
| XL | CONTINUATION. |
| XLI | OTHER PROOFS THAT MOTION IS IN THE ESSENCE OF MATTER |
| XLII | THE EXISTENCE OF MAN DOES NOT PROVE THAT OF GOD. |
| XLIII | HOWEVER, NEITHER MAN NOR THE UNIVERSE IS THE EFFECT OF CHANCE. |
| XLIV | NEITHER DOES THE ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF A GOD |
| XLV | CONTINUATION. |
| XLVI | A PURE SPIRIT CAN NOT BE INTELLIGENT |
| XLVII | ALL THE QUALITIES WHICH THEOLOGY GIVES TO ITS GOD ARE CONTRARY |
| XLVIII | CONTINUATION. |
| XLIX | IT IS ABSURD TO SAY THAT THE HUMAN RACE IS THE OBJECT AND THE END |
| L | GOD IS NOT MADE FOR MAN, NOR MAN FOR GOD. |
| LI | IT IS NOT TRUE THAT THE OBJECT OF THE FORMATION OF THE . . . |
| LII | WHAT IS CALLED PROVIDENCE IS BUT A WORD VOID OF SENSE. |
| LIII | THIS PRETENDED PROVIDENCE IS LESS OCCUPIED IN CONSERVING . . . |
| LIV | NO! THE WORLD IS NOT GOVERNED BY AN INTELLIGENT BEING. |
| LV | GOD CAN NOT BE CALLED IMMUTABLE. |
| LVI | EVIL AND GOOD ARE THE NECESSARY EFFECTS OF NATURAL CAUSES |
| LVII | THE VANITY OF THEOLOGICAL CONSOLATIONS |
| LVIII | ANOTHER IDLE FANCY. |
| LIX | IN VAIN DOES THEOLOGY EXERT ITSELF TO ACQUIT GOD OF MAN'S DEFECTS. |
| LX | WE CAN NOT BELIEVE IN A DIVINE PROVIDENCE |
| LXI | CONTINUATION. |
| LXII | THEOLOGY MAKES OF ITS GOD A MONSTER OF NONSENSE, OF INJUSTICE |
| LXIII | ALL RELIGION INSPIRES BUT A COWARDLY AND INORDINATE FEAR |
| LXIV | THERE IS IN REALITY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN . . . |
| LXV | ACCORDING TO THE IDEAS WHICH THEOLOGY GIVES OF DIVINITY |
| LXVI | BY THE INVENTION OF THE DOGMA OF THE ETERNAL TORMENTS OF HELL |
| LXVII | THEOLOGY IS BUT A SERIES OF PALPABLE CONTRADICTIONS. |
| LXVIII | THE PRETENDED WORKS OF GOD DO NOT PROVE AT ALL . . . |
| LXIX | THE PERFECTION OF GOD DOES NOT SHOW TO ANY MORE ADVANTAGE . . . |
| LXX | THEOLOGY PREACHES THE OMNIPOTENCE OF ITS GOD |
| LXXI | ACCORDING TO ALL THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS OF THE EARTH |
| LXXII | IT IS ABSURD TO SAY THAT EVIL DOES NOT COME FROM GOD. |
| LXXIII | THE FORESIGHT ATTRIBUTED TO GOD |
| LXXIV | ABSURDITY OF THE THEOLOGICAL FABLES UPON ORIGINAL SIN |
| LXXV | THE DEVIL, LIKE RELIGION, WAS INVENTED TO ENRICH THE PRIESTS. |
| LXXVI | IF GOD COULD NOT RENDER HUMAN NATURE SINLESS, HE HAS NO RIGHT . . . |
| LXXVII | IT IS ABSURD TO SAY THAT GOD'S CONDUCT MUST BE A MYSTERY TO MAN |
| LXXVIII | IT IS ABSURD TO CALL HIM A GOD OF JUSTICE AND GOODNESS |
| LXXIX | A GOD WHO PUNISHES THE FAULTS WHICH HE COULD HAVE PREVENTED |
| LXXX | FREE WILL IS AN IDLE FANCY. |
| LXXXI | WE SHOULD NOT CONCLUDE FROM THIS THAT SOCIETY HAS NOT THE RIGHT . . . |
| LXXXII | REFUTATION OF THE ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF FREE WILL. |
| LXXXIII | CONTINUATION. |
| LXXXIV | GOD HIMSELF, IF THERE WAS A GOD, WOULD NOT BE FREE |
| LXXXV | EVEN ACCORDING TO THEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, MAN IS NOT FREE |
| LXXXVI | ALL EVIL, ALL DISORDER, ALL SIN, CAN BE ATTRIBUTED BUT TO GOD |
| LXXXVII | MEN'S PRAYERS TO GOD PROVE SUFFICIENTLY THAT THEY ARE NOT . . . |
| LXXXVIII | THE REPARATION OF THE INIQUITIES AND THE MISERIES OF THIS |
| LXXXIX | THEOLOGY JUSTIFIES THE EVIL AND INJUSTICE PERMITTED BY ITS GOD, |
| XC | REDEMPTION, AND THE CONTINUAL EXTERMINATIONS ATTRIBUTED TO JEHOVAH |
| XCI | HOW CAN WE DISCOVER A TENDER, GENEROUS, AND EQUITABLE FATHER |
| XCII | THE LIFE OF MORTALS, ALL WHICH TAKES PLACE HERE BELOW |
| XCIII | IT IS NOT TRUE THAT WE OWE ANY GRATITUDE TO WHAT WE CALL . . . |
| XCIV | TO PRETEND THAT MAN IS THE BELOVED CHILD OF PROVIDENCE |
| XCV | COMPARISON BETWEEN MAN AND ANIMALS. |
| XCVI | THERE ARE NO MORE DETESTABLE ANIMALS IN THIS WORLD THAN TYRANTS. |
| XCVII | REFUTATION OF MAN'S EXCELLENCE. |
| XCVIII | AN ORIENTAL LEGEND. |
| XCIX | IT IS FOOLISH TO SEE IN THE UNIVERSE ONLY THE BENEFACTIONS OF GOD |
| C | WHAT IS THE SOUL? WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT |
| CI | THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL IS AN ABSURD SUPPOSITION |
| CII | IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE WHOLE OF MAN DIES. |
| CIII | INCONTESTABLE PROOFS AGAINST THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE SOUL. |
| CIV | THE ABSURDITY OF SUPERNATURAL CAUSES |
| CV | IT IS FALSE THAT MATERIALISM CAN BE DEBASING TO THE HUMAN RACE. |
| CVI | CONTINUATION. |
| CVII | THE DOGMA OF ANOTHER LIFE IS USEFUL BUT FOR THOSE WHO PROFIT BY IT |
| CVIII | IT IS FALSE THAT THE DOGMA OF ANOTHER LIFE CAN BE CONSOLING |
| CIX | ALL RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES ARE IMAGINARY |
| CX | EVERY RELIGION IS BUT A SYSTEM IMAGINED FOR THE PURPOSE . . . |
| CXI | ABSURDITY AND INUTILITY OF THE MYSTERIES |
| CXII | CONTINUATION. |
| CXIII | CONTINUATION. |
| CXIV | A UNIVERSAL GOD SHOULD HAVE REVEALED A UNIVERSAL RELIGION. |
| CXV | THE PROOF THAT RELIGION IS NOT NECESSARY |
| CXVI | ALL RELIGIONS ARE RIDICULED BY THOSE OF OPPOSITE . . . |
| CXVII | OPINION OF A CELEBRATED THEOLOGIAN. |
| CXVIII | THE DEIST'S GOD IS NO LESS CONTRADICTORY . . . |
| CXIX | WE DO NOT PROVE AT ALL THE EXISTENCE OF A GOD BY SAYING . . . |
| CXX | ALL THE GODS ARE OF A BARBAROUS ORIGIN; ALL RELIGIONS ARE . . . |
| CXXI | ALL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES BEAR THE SEAL OF STUPIDITY OR BARBARITY. |
| CXXII | THE MORE ANCIENT AND GENERAL A RELIGIOUS OPINION IS . . . |
| CXXIII | SKEPTICISM IN THE MATTER OF RELIGION |
| CXXIV | REVELATION REFUTED. |
| CXXV | WHERE, THEN, IS THE PROOF THAT GOD DID EVER SHOW HIMSELF TO MEN |
| CXXVI | NOTHING ESTABLISHES THE TRUTH OF MIRACLES. |
| CXXVII | IF GOD HAD SPOKEN, IT WOULD BE STRANGE THAT HE HAD SPOKEN |
| CXXVIII | OBSCURE AND SUSPICIOUS ORIGIN OF ORACLES. |
| CXXIX | ABSURDITY OF PRETENDED MIRACLES. |
| CXXX | REFUTATION OF PASCAL'S MANNER OF REASONING |
| CXXXI | EVEN ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THEOLOGY ITSELF . . . |
| CXXXII | EVEN THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS, TESTIFIES . . . |
| CXXXIII | THE FANATICISM OF THE MARTYRS |
| CXXXIV | THEOLOGY MAKES OF ITS GOD AN ENEMY OF COMMON SENSE |
| CXXXV | FAITH IS IRRECONCILABLE WITH REASON |
| CXXXVI | HOW ABSURD AND RIDICULOUS IS THE SOPHISTRY OF THOSE . . . |
| CXXXVII | HOW PRETEND THAT MAN OUGHT TO BELIEVE VERBAL TESTIMONY |
| CXXXVIII | FAITH TAKES ROOT BUT IN WEAK, IGNORANT, OR INDOLENT MINDS. |
| CXXXIX | TO TEACH THAT THERE EXISTS ONE TRUE RELIGION IS AN ABSURDITY, |
| CXL | RELIGION IS NOT NECESSARY TO MORALITY AND TO VIRTUE. |
| CXLI | RELIGION IS THE WEAKEST RESTRAINT THAT CAN BE OPPOSED . . . |
| CXLII | HONOR IS A MORE SALUTARY AND A STRONGER CHECK THAN RELIGION. |
| CXLIII | RELIGION IS CERTAINLY NOT A POWERFUL CHECK UPON THE PASSIONS |
| CXLIV | ORIGIN OF THE MOST ABSURD, THE MOST RIDICULOUS, AND . . . |
| CXLV | RELIGION IS FATAL TO POLITICS; IT FORMS BUT LICENTIOUS . . . |
| CXLVI | CHRISTIANITY EXTENDED ITSELF BUT BY ENCOURAGING DESPOTISM |
| CXLVII | THE ONLY AIM OF RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES IS TO PERPETUATE . . . |
| CXLVIII | HOW FATAL IT IS TO PERSUADE KINGS THAT THEY HAVE ONLY GOD . . . |
| CLXIX | A RELIGIOUS KING IS A SCOURGE TO HIS KINGDOM. |
| CL | THE SHIELD OF RELIGION IS FOR TYRANNY |
| CLI | RELIGION FAVORS THE ERRORS OF PRINCES |
| CLII | WHAT IS AN ENLIGHTENED SOVEREIGN? |
| CLIII | THE DOMINANT PASSIONS AND CRIMES OF PRIESTCRAFT. |
| CLIV | CHARLATANRY OF THE PRIESTS. |
| CLV | COUNTLESS CALAMITIES ARE PRODUCED BY RELIGION |
| CLVI | EVERY RELIGION IS INTOLERANT, AND CONSEQUENTLY DESTRUCTIVE OF |
| CLVII | ABUSE OF A STATE RELIGION. |
| CLVIII | RELIGION GIVES LICENSE TO THE FEROCITY OF THE PEOPLE |
| CLIX | REFUTATION OF THE ARGUMENT, THAT THE EVILS ATTRIBUTED TO RELIGION |
| CLX | ALL MORALITY IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. |
| CLXI | THE MORALS OF THE GOSPEL ARE IMPRACTICABLE. |
| CLXII | A SOCIETY OF SAINTS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE. |
| CLXIII | HUMAN NATURE IS NOT DEPRAVED |
| CLXIV | OF JESUS CHRIST, THE PRIEST'S GOD. |
| CLXV | THE DOGMA OF THE REMISSION OF SINS HAS BEEN INVENTED |
| CLXVI | THE FEAR OF GOD IS POWERLESS AGAINST HUMAN PASSIONS. |
| CLXVII | THE INVENTION OF HELL IS TOO ABSURD TO PREVENT EVIL. |
| CLXVIII | ABSURDITY OF THE MORALITY AND OF THE RELIGIOUS VIRTUES |
| CLXIX | WHAT DOES THAT CHRISTIAN CHARITY AMOUNT TO |
| CLXX | CONFESSION, THAT GOLDEN MINE FOR THE PRIESTS |
| CLXXI | THE SUPPOSITION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A GOD IS NOT NECESSARY |
| CLXXII | RELIGION AND ITS SUPERNATURAL MORALITY ARE FATAL TO THE PEOPLE |
| CLXXIII | HOW THE UNION OF RELIGION AND POLITICS IS FATAL TO THE PEOPLE |
| CLXXIV | CREEDS ARE BURDENSOME AND RUINOUS TO THE MAJORITY OF NATIONS. |
| CLXXV | RELIGION PARALYZES MORALITY. |
| CLXXVI | FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF PIETY. |
| CLXXVII | THE SUPPOSITION OF ANOTHER LIFE IS NEITHER CONSOLING TO MAN . . . |
| CLXXVIII | AN ATHEIST HAS MORE MOTIVES FOR ACTING UPRIGHTLY |
| CLXXIX | AN ATHEISTICAL KING WOULD BE PREFERABLE TO ONE WHO IS RELIGIOUS |
| CLXXX | THE MORALITY ACQUIRED BY PHILOSOPHY IS SUFFICIENT TO VIRTUE. |
| CLXXXI | OPINIONS RARELY INFLUENCE CONDUCT. |
| CLXXXII | -REASON LEADS MEN TO IRRELIGION AND TO ATHEISM |
| CLXXXIII | FEAR ALONE CREATES THEISTS AND BIGOTS. |
| CLXXXIV | CAN WE, OR SHOULD WE, LOVE OR NOT LOVE GOD? |
| CLXXXV | THE VARIOUS AND CONTRADICTORY IDEAS WHICH EXIST EVERYWHERE |
| CLXXXVI | THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, WHICH IS THE BASIS OF ALL RELIGION |
| CLXXXVII | PRIESTS, MORE THAN UNBELIEVERS, ACT FROM INTEREST. |
| CLXXXVIII | PRIDE, PRESUMPTION, AND CORRUPTION OF THE HEART |
| CLXXXIX | PREJUDICES ARE BUT FOR A TIME, AND NO POWER IS DURABLE |
| CXC | HOW MUCH POWER AND CONSIDERATION THE MINISTERS OF THE GODS . . . |
| CXCI | WHAT A HAPPY AND GREAT REVOLUTION WOULD TAKE PLACE . . . |
| CXCII | THE RETRACTION OF AN UNBELIEVER AT THE HOUR OF DEATH |
| CXCIII | IT IS NOT TRUE THAT ATHEISM SUNDERS ALL THE TIES OF SOCIETY. |
| CXCIV | REFUTATION OF THE ASSERTION THAT RELIGION IS NECESSARY |
| CXCV | EVERY RATIONAL SYSTEM IS NOT MADE FOR THE MULTITUDE. |
| CXCVI | FUTILITY AND DANGER OF THEOLOGY. WISE COUNSELS TO PRINCES. |
| CXCVII | FATAL EFFECTS OF RELIGION UPON THE PEOPLE AND THE PRINCES. |
| CXCVIII | CONTINUATION. |
| CXCIX | HISTORY TEACHES US THAT ALL RELIGIONS WERE ESTABLISHED . . . |
| CC | ALL RELIGIONS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, HAVE MUTUALLY BORROWED . . . |
| CCI | THEOLOGY HAS ALWAYS TURNED PHILOSOPHY FROM ITS TRUE COURSE. |
| CCII | -THEOLOGY NEITHER EXPLAINS NOR ENLIGHTENS ANYTHING IN THE WORLD |
| CCIII | HOW THEOLOGY HAS FETTERED HUMAN MORALS AND RETARDED THE PROGRESS |
| CCIV | CONTINUATION. |
| CCV | WE COULD NOT REPEAT TOO OFTEN HOW EXTRAVAGANT AND FATAL RELIGION |
| CCVI | RELIGION IS PANDORA'S BOX, AND THIS FATAL BOX IS OPEN. |
| I | OF RELIGIONS. |
| II | OF MIRACLES. |
| III | SIMILARITY BETWEEN ANCIENT AND MODERN MIRACLES. |
| IV | OF THE FALSITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. |
| V | THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. (1) OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. |
| VI | THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. (2) THE NEW TESTAMENT. |
| VII | ERRORS OF DOCTRINE AND OF MORALITY. |
| PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. |
| PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR |
| PREFACE OF THE EDITOR OF THE FRENCH EDITION OF 1830. |
| PREFACE. | |
| LECTURE FIRST. | ON MIRACLES |
| LECTURE SECOND. | CHRISTIAN SUPERNATURALISM FURTHER CONSIDERED |
| LECTURE THIRD. | THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS, AND THEIR DOGMAS |
| LECTURE FOURTH. | PAGAN ALLEGORIES MADE CHRISTIAN DOGMAS (Continued.) |
| LECTURE FIFTH. | ON THE EARLY EFFECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN SUPERSTITION |
| LECTURE SIXTH. | EFFECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN SUPERSTITION (Continued) |
| DIALOGUE. | PHYSIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL |
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| WAS THE STAUROS OF JESUS CROSS-SHAPED? | 13 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE EVIDENCE OF MINUCIUS FELIX | 31 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| THE EVIDENCE OF THE OTHER FATHERS | 41 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| CURIOUS STATEMENTS OF IRENÆUS | 52 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| ORIGIN OF THE PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS | 57 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN CROSS | 65 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| THE ESTABLISHER OF THE CHURCH | 82 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| CROSS AND CRESCENT | 92 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| THE CORONATION ORB | 104 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| ROMAN COINS BEFORE CONSTANTINE | 119 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| THE COINS OF CONSTANTINE | 133 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| ROMAN COINS AFTER CONSTANTINE | 142 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| THE MONOGRAM OF CHRIST | 147 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| THE CROSS OF THE LOGOS | 163 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| THE PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS IN EUROPE | 169 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| THE PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS IN ASIA | 178 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| THE PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS IN AFRICA | 183 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| EVIDENCE OF TROY | 187 |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| EVIDENCE OF CYPRUS | 193 |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| MISCELLANEOUS EVIDENCE | 204 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| SUMMARY | 214 |
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| CHAPTER I. | Death of Stephen.-Conversion of Paul.-His retirement to Arabia and return to Damascus and Jerusalem. |
| CHAPTER II. | Paul and Barnabas start west to preach the Gospel.-The prevailing ideas on religion in Asia Minor.-Theology of Plato and Philo.-The effect produced by the preaching of Paul. |
| CHAPTER III. | Therapeutæ of Philo-and Essenes of Josephus.-An account of them.-Their disappearance from history, and what became of them. |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH. |
| CHAPTER V. | Review of the past.-What follows in the future. |
| CHAPTER VI. | How the Four Gospels Originated |
| CHAPTER VII. | John the son of Zebedee never in Asia Minor.-John the Presbyter substituted.-The work of Irenæus and Eusebius.- John the disciple has served to create an enigma in history.-John of Ephesus a myth. |
| CHAPTER VIII. | The Gnostics.-Irenæus makes war on them.-His mode of warfare.-The Apostolic succession and the object.-No church in Rome to the time of Adrian.-Peter never in Rome- nor Paul in Britain, Gaul, or Spain.-Forgeries of Irenæus. |
| CHAPTER IX. | The claim of Irenæus that Mark was the interpreter of Peter, and Luke the author of the third Gospel, considered.-Luke and Mark both put to death with Paul in Rome. |
| CHAPTER X. | Acts of the Apostles.-Schemes to exalt Peter at the expense of Paul. |
| CHAPTER XI. | Matthew the author of the only genuine Gospel.-Rejected, because it did not contain the first two chapters of the present Greek version. |
| CHAPTER XII. | The character of Irenaeus and probable time of his birth.- His partiality for traditions.-The claim of the Gnostics, that Christ did not suffer, the origin of the fourth Gospel.-Irenaeus the writer. |
| CHAPTER XIII. | Why Irenaeus wrote the fourth Gospel in the name of John.- He shows that the Gospels could not be less than four, and proves the doctrine of the incarnation by the Old Testament and the Synoptics.-The author of the epistles attributed to St. John. |
| CHAPTER XIV. | Four distinct eras in Christianity from Paul to the Council of Nice.-The epistles of Paul and the works of the fathers changed to suit each era.-The dishonesty of the times. |
| CHAPTER XV. | The Trinity, or fourth period of Christianity. |
| CHAPTER XVI. | The Catholic Epistles. |
| CHAPTER XVII. | No Christians in Rome from A. D. 66 to A. D. 117. |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | The office of Bishop foreign to churches established by Paul, which were too poor and too few in number to support the order.-Third chapter of the second Epistle to Timothy, and the one to Titus, forgeries.-The writings of the Fathers corrupted. |
| CHAPTER XIX. | Linus never Bishop of Rome.-Clement, third Bishop, and his successors to the time of Anicetus, myths.-Chronology of Eusebius exposed, also that of Irenæus. |
| CHAPTER XX. | The prophetic period.-The fourteenth verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah explained. |
| CHAPTER XXI. | Bethlehem the birthplace of Christ, as foretold by the prophets.-Cyrus, the deliverer and ruler referred to by Micah the prophet.-The Lamentations of Jeremiah spoken of by Matthew (Chap. ii. 18), refers to the Jews, and not to the massacre of the infants by Herod. |
| CHAPTER XXII. | Christ and John the Baptist |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | The miracle of the cloven tongues.-Misapplication of a prophecy of Joel. |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | Miracles. |
| CHAPTER XXV. | Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews. |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | The controversy between Ptolemæus and Irenæus as to the length of Christ's ministry.-Christ was in Jerusalem but once after he began to preach, according to the first three Gospels, but three times according to John.-If the statements made in the first three are true, everything stated in the fourth could only happen after the death of Christ. |
| CHAPTER XXVII. | The phase assumed by Christianity in the fourth Gospel demanded a new class of miracles from those given in the first three.-A labored effort in this Gospel to sink the humanity of Christ.-His address to Mary.-The temptation in the wilderness ignored, and the last supper between him and his disciples suppressed.-Interview between Christ and the women and men of Samaria.-A labored effort to connect Christ with Moses exposed. |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | The first two chapters of Matthew not in existence during the time of Paul and Apollos.-A compromise was made between their followers at the council at Smyrna, A. D. 107.-The creed of the Church as it existed at that day determined, and how Christ was made manifest.-Catholics of the second century repudiate this creed and abuse Paul.-Further proof that Irenaeus never saw Polycarp.-Injuries inflicted upon the world by the fourth Gospel. |
| APPENDIX. |
| PREFACE | |
| BYGONE BELIEFS | |
| I | SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDAEVAL THOUGHT |
| II | PYTHAGORAS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY |
| III | MEDICINE AND MAGIC |
| IV | SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BIRDS |
| V | THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY: A CURIOUS MEDICAL SUPERSTITION |
| VI | THE BELIEF IN TALISMANS |
| VII | CEREMONIAL MAGIC IN THEORY AND PRACTICE |
| VIII | ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM |
| IX | THE QUEST OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE |
| X | THE PHALLIC ELEMENT IN ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE |
| XI | ROGER BACON: AN APPRECIATION |
| XII | THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS |
| PREFACE. |
| INTRODUCTION. |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN: WAS HE A CHRISTIAN? |
| CHAPTER I. | CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY |
| CHAPTER II. | REVIEW OF CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY—HOLLAND AND BATEMAN |
| CHAPTER III. | REVIEW OF CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY—REED AND HIS WITNESSES |
| CHAPTER IV. | REVIEW OF CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY—ARNOLD AND OTHER WITNESSES |
| CHAPTER V. | TESTIMONY OF HON. WILLIAM H. HERNDON—PUBLISHED TESTIMONY |
| CHAPTER VI. | TESTIMONY OF HON. WILLIAM H. HERNDON—UNPUBLISHED TESTIMONY |
| CHAPTER VII. | TESTIMONY OF COL. WARD H. LAMON |
| CHAPTER VIII. | TESTIMONY OF HON. JOHN T. STUART AND COL. JAMES H. MATHENY |
| CHAPTER IX. | TESTIMONY OF THE REMAINING WITNESSES PRESENTED BY LAMON |
| CHAPTER X. | TESTIMONY OF LINCOLN'S RELATIVES AND INTIMATE ASSOCIATES |
| CHAPTER XI. | TESTIMONY OF FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF LINCOLN WHO KNEW HIM IN ILLINOIS |
| CHAPTER XII. | TESTIMONY OF FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF LINCOLN WHO KNEW HIM IN WASHINGTON |
| CHAPTER XIII. | OTHER TESTIMONY AND OPINIONS |
| CHAPTER XIV. | EVIDENCE GATHERED FROM LINCOLN'S LETTERS SPEECHES, AND CONVERSATIONS |
| CHAPTER XV. | RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION |
| Preface (translator's) |
| Introduction (translator's) |
| Reflections and Moral Maxims |
| First Supplement |
| Second Supplement |
| Third Supplement |
| Reflections on Various Subjects |
| Index |
| Celsus | Porphyry | Julian |
| Pages 33-37 — The Infancy of Jesus Christ |
| Pages 40-41 — The Childhood of Jesus Christ |
| Pages 223-225 — The Apostles' Creed |
| I. |
| THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS. |
| ST. CLEMENT. |
| II. |
| ST. BARNABAS |
| ST. IGNATIUS. |
| ST. POLYCARP. |
| III. |
| HERMAS. |
| THEIR TESTIMONY TO THE GOSPELS. |
| IV. |
| PAPIAS. |
| V. |
| JUSTIN MARTYR. |
| ELEUTHERIUS |
| VI. |
| IRENÆUS. |
| EUSEBIUS. |
"There is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean."
—Paul (Romans xiv. 14).
| PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. | |
| TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE | |
| PREFACE OF THE LONDON EDITION.* | |
| PREFACE OF THE AMERICAN EDITION.* | |
| ADVERTISEMENT OF THE AMERICAN EDITION. | |
| PARIS TRANSLATION, | |
| LONDON TRANSLATION. | |
| PHILADELPHIA TRANSLATION. | |
| CHAPTER I. | THE JOURNEY |
| CHAPTER II. | THE REVERIE. |
| CHAPTER III. | THE APPARITION. |
| CHAPTER IV. | THE EXPOSITION |
| CHAPTER V. | CONDITION OF MAN IN THE UNIVERSE. |
| CHAPTER VI. | THE PRIMITIVE STATE OF MAN. |
| CHAPTER VII. | PRINCIPLES OF SOCIETY. |
| CHAPTER VIII. | SOURCES OF THE EVILS OF SOCIETY. |
| CHAPTER IX. | ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT AND LAWS. |
| CHAPTER X. | GENERAL CAUSES OF THE PROSPERITY OF ANCIENT STATES. |
| CHAPTER XI. | GENERAL CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTIONS AND RUIN OF ANCIENT STATES. |
| CHAPTER XII. | LESSONS OF TIMES PAST REPEATED ON THE PRESENT. |
| CHAPTER XIII. | WILL THE HUMAN RACE IMPROVE? |
| CHAPTER XIV. | THE GREAT OBSTACLE TO IMPROVEMENT. |
| CHAPTER XV. | THE NEW AGE. |
| CHAPTER XVI. | A FREE AND LEGISLATIVE PEOPLE. |
| CHAPTER XVII. | UNIVERSAL BASIS OF ALL RIGHT AND ALL LAW. |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | CONSTERNATION AND CONSPIRACY OF TYRANTS. |
| CHAPTER XIX. | GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NATIONS. |
| CHAPTER XX. | THE SEARCH OF TRUTH. |
| CHAPTER XXI. | PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS CONTRADICTIONS. |
| CHAPTER XXII. | ORIGIN AND FILIATION OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS. |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | ALL RELIGIONS HAVE THE SAME OBJECT. |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF CONTRADICTIONS. |
| CHAPTER I. | OF THE LAW OF NATURE. |
| CHAPTER II. | CHARACTERS OF THE LAW OF NATURE. |
| CHAPTER III. | PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF NATURE RELATING TO MAN. |
| CHAPTER IV. | BASIS OF MORALITY; OF GOOD, OF EVIL, OF SIN, OF CRIME, OF VICE AND OF VIRTUE. |
| CHAPTER V. | OF INDIVIDUAL VIRTUES. |
| CHAPTER VI. | ON TEMPERANCE. |
| CHAPTER VII. | ON CONTINENCE. |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ON COURAGE AND ACTIVITY. |
| CHAPTER IX. | ON CLEANLINESS. |
| CHAPTER X. | ON DOMESTIC VIRTUES. |
| CHAPTER XI. | THE SOCIAL VIRTUES; JUSTICE. |
| CHAPTER XII. | DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL VIRTUES. |
| VOLNEY'S ANSWER TO DR. PRIESTLY. |
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.
I. WHAT WE MUST DO TO BE SAVED
(1872.)
An Honest God is the Noblest Work of Man—Resemblance of Gods to
their Creators—Manufacture and Characteristics of Deities—Their
Amours—Deficient in many Departments of Knowledge—Pleased with the
Butchery of Unbelievers—A Plentiful Supply—Visitations—One God's
Laws of War—The Book called the Bible—Heresy of Universalism—Faith
an unhappy mixture of Insanity and Ignorance—Fallen Gods, or
Devils—Directions concerning Human Slavery—The first Appearance of
the Devil—The Tree of Knowledge—Give me the Storm and Tempest of
Thought—Gods and Devils Natural Productions—Personal Appearance
of Deities—All Man's Ideas suggested by his Surroundings—Phenomena
Supposed to be Produced by Intelligent Powers—Insanity and Disease
attributed to Evil Spirits—Origin of the Priesthood—Temptation of
Christ—Innate Ideas—Divine Interference—Special Providence—The
Crane and the Fish—Cancer as a proof of Design—Matter and
Force—Miracle—Passing the Hat for just one Fact—Sir William Hamilton
on Cause and Effect—The Phenomena of Mind—Necessity and Free Will—The
Dark Ages—The Originality of Repetition—Of what Use have the Gods been
to Man?—Paley and Design—Make Good Health Contagious—Periodicity of
the Universe and the Commencement of Intellectual Freedom—Lesson of
the ineffectual attempt to rescue the Tomb of Christ from the
Mohammedans—The Cemetery of the Gods—Taking away Crutches—Imperial
Reason
(1869.)
The Universe is Governed by Law—The Self-made Man—Poverty generally
an Advantage—Humboldt's Birth-place—His desire for Travel—On what
Humboldt's Fame depends—His Companions and Friends—Investigations
in the New World—A Picture—Subjects of his Addresses—Victory of the
Church over Philosophy—Influence of the discovery that the World is
governed by Law—On the term Law—Copernicus—Astronomy—Aryabhatta—
Descartes—Condition of the World and Man when the morning of Science
Dawned—Reasons for Honoring Humboldt—The World his Monument
(1870.)
With his Name left out the History of Liberty cannot be Written—Paine's
Origin and Condition—His arrival in America with a Letter of
Introduction by Franklin—Condition of the Colonies—"Common Sense"—A
new Nation Born—Paine the Best of Political Writers—The "Crisis"—War
not to the Interest of a trading Nation—Paine's Standing at the Close
of the Revolution—Close of the Eighteenth Century in France-The
"Rights of Man"—Paine Prosecuted in England—"The World is my
Country"—Elected to the French Assembly—Votes against the Death of
the King—Imprisoned—A look behind the Altar—The "Age of Reason"—His
Argument against the Bible as a Revelation—Christianity of Paine's
Day—A Blasphemy Law in Force in Maryland—The Scotch "Kirk"—Hanging
of Thomas Aikenhead for Denying the Inspiration of the
Scriptures—"Cathedrals and Domes, and Chimes and Chants"—Science—"He
Died in the Land his Genius Defended,"
(1873.)
"His Soul was like a Star and Dwelt Apart"—Disobedience one of the
Conditions of Progress.—Magellan—The Monarch and the Hermit-Why
the Church hates a Thinker—The Argument from Grandeur and
Prosperity-Travelers and Guide-boards—A Degrading Saying—Theological
Education—Scotts, Henrys and McKnights—The Church the Great
Robber—Corrupting the Reason of Children—Monotony of Acquiescence: For
God's sake, say No—Protestant Intolerance: Luther and Calvin—Assertion
of Individual Independence a Step toward Infidelity—Salute to
Jupiter—The Atheistic Bug-Little Religious Liberty in America—God in
the Constitution, Man Out—Decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois
that an Unbeliever could not testify in any Court—Dissimulation—Nobody
in this Bed—The Dignity of a Unit
(1874.)
Liberty, a Word without which all other Words are Vain—The Church, the
Bible, and Persecution—Over the wild Waves of War rose and fell
the Banner of Jesus Christ—Highest Type of the Orthodox
Christian—Heretics' Tongues and why they should be Removed before
Burning—The Inquisition Established—Forms of Torture—Act of Henry
VIII for abolishing Diversity of Opinion—What a Good Christian was
Obliged to Believe—The Church has Carried the Black Flag—For what Men
and Women have been Burned—John Calvin's Advent into the
World—His Infamous Acts—Michael Servetus—Castalio—Spread of
Presbyterianism—Indictment of a Presbyterian Minister in Illinois for
Heresy—Specifications—The Real Bible
(1877.)
Dedication to Ebon C. Ingersoll—Preface—Mendacity of the Religious
Press—"Materialism"—Ways of Pleasing the Ghosts—The Idea of
Immortality not Born of any Book—Witchcraft and Demon-ology—Witch
Trial before Sir Matthew Hale—John Wesley a Firm Believer in
Ghosts—"Witch-spots"—Lycanthropy—Animals Tried and Convicted—The
Governor of Minnesota and the Grasshoppers—A Papal Bull against
Witchcraft—Victims of the Delusion—Sir William Blackstone's
Affirmation—Trials in Belgium—Incubi and Succubi—A Bishop
Personated by the Devil—The Doctrine that Diseases are caused by
Ghosts—Treatment—Timothy Dwight against Vaccination—Ghosts as
Historians—The Language of Eden—Leibnitz, Founder of the Science
of Language—Cosmas on Astronomy—Vagaries of Kepler and Tycho
Brahe—Discovery of Printing, Powder, and America—Thanks to the
Inventors—The Catholic Murderer and the Meat—Let the Ghosts Go
THE LIBERTY OF MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD.
(1877.)
Liberty sustains the same Relation to Mind that Space does to
Matter—The History of Man a History of Slavery—The Infidel Our
Fathers in the good old Time—The iron Arguments that Christians
Used—Instruments of Torture—A Vision of the Inquisition—Models of
Man's Inventions—Weapons, Armor, Musical Instruments, Paintings,
Books, Skulls—The Gentleman in the Dug-out—Homage to Genius and
Intellect—Abraham Lincoln—What I mean by Liberty—The Man who cannot
afford to Speak his Thought is a Certificate of the Meanness of the
Community in which he Resides—Liberty of Woman—Marriage and the
Family—Ornaments the Souvenirs of Bondage-The Story of the Garden of
Eden—Adami and Heva—Equality of the Sexes-The word "Boss"—The Cross
Man-The Stingy Man—Wives who are Beggars—How to Spend Money—By
the Tomb of the Old Napoleon—The Woman you Love will never Grow
Old—Liberty of Children—When your Child tells a Lie—Disowning
Children—Beating your own Flesh and Blood—Make Home Pleasant—Sunday
when I was a Boy—The Laugh of a Child—The doctrine of Eternal
Punishment—Jonathan Edwards on the Happiness of Believing Husbands
whose Wives are in Hell—The Liberty of Eating and Sleeping—Water in
Fever—Soil and Climate necessary to the production of Genius—Against
Annexing Santo Domingo—Descent of Man—Conclusion
(1877.)
To Plow is to Pray; to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and
Fulfills—The Old Way of Farming—Cooking an Unknown Art-Houses, Fuel,
and Crops—The Farmer's Boy—What a Farmer should Sell—Beautifying
the Home—Advantages of Illinois as a Farming State—Advantages of the
Farmer over the Mechanic—Farm Life too Lonely-On Early Rising—Sleep
the Best Doctor—Fashion—Patriotism and Boarding Houses—The Farmer and
the Railroads—Money and Confidence—Demonetization of Silver-Area of
Illinois—Mortgages and Interest—Kindness to Wives and Children—How
a Beefsteak should be Cooked—Decorations and Comfort—Let the Children
Sleep—Old Age
(1880.)
Preface—The Synoptic Gospels—Only Mark Knew of the Necessity of
Belief—Three Christs Described—The Jewish Gentleman and the Piece of
Bacon—Who Wrote the New Testament?—Why Christ and the Apostles wrote
Nothing—Infinite Respect for the Man Christ—Different Feeling for
the Theological Christ—Saved from What?—Chapter on the Gospel of
Matthew—What this Gospel says we must do to be Saved—Jesus and the
Children—John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards conceived of as Dimpled
Darlings—Christ and the Man who inquired what Good Thing he should
do that he might have Eternal Life—Nothing said about Belief—An
Interpolation—Chapter on the Gospel of Mark—The Believe or be Damned
Passage, and why it was written—The last Conversation of Christ with
his Disciples—The Signs that Follow them that Believe—Chapter on
the Gospel of Luke—Substantial Agreement with Matthew and Mark—How
Zaccheus achieved Salvation—The two Thieves on the Cross—Chapter
on the Gospel of John—The Doctrine of Regeneration, or the New
Birth—Shall we Love our Enemies while God Damns His?—Chapter on the
Catholics—Communication with Heaven through Decayed Saints—Nuns and
Nunneries—Penitentiaries of God should be Investigated—The
Athanasian Creed expounded—The Trinity and its Members—Chapter on the
Episcopalians—Origin of the Episcopal Church—Apostolic Succession
an Imported Article—Episcopal Creed like the Catholic, with a
few Additional Absurdities—Chapter on the Methodists—Wesley and
Whitfield—Their Quarrel about Predestination—Much Preaching for Little
Money—Adapted to New Countries—Chapter on the Presbyterians—John
Calvin, Murderer—Meeting between Calvin and Knox—The Infamy of
Calvinism—Division in the Church—The Young Presbyterian's Resignation
to the Fate of his Mother—A Frightful, Hideous, and Hellish
Creed—Chapter on the Evangelical Alliance—Jeremy Taylor's Opinion of
Baptists—Orthodoxy not Dead—Creed of the Alliance—Total Depravity,
Eternal Damnation—What do You Propose?—The Gospel of Good-fellowship,
Cheerfulness, Health, Good Living, Justice—No Forgiveness—God's
Forgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to Smith—Gospel of Liberty, of
Intelligence, of Humanity—One World at a Time—"Upon that Rock I
Stand"
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
(1879.)
Preface—I. He who endeavors to control the Mind by Force is a
Tyrant, and he who submits is a Slave—All I Ask—When a Religion
is Founded—Freedom for the Orthodox Clergy—Every Minister an
Attorney—Submission to the Orthodox and the Dead—Bounden Duty of
the Ministry—The Minister Factory at Andover—II. Free Schools—No
Sectarian Sciences—Religion and the Schools—Scientific
Hypocrites—III. The Politicians and the Churches—IV. Man and Woman the
Highest Possible Titles—Belief Dependent on Surroundings—Worship of
Ancestors—Blindness Necessary to Keeping the Narrow Path—The Bible the
Chain that Binds—A Bible of the Middle Ages and the Awe it Inspired—V.
The Pentateuch—Moses Not the Author—Belief out of which Grew
Religious Ceremonies—Egypt the Source of the Information of Moses—VI.
Monday—Nothing, in the Light of Raw Material—The Story of Creation
Begun—The Same Story, substantially, Found in the Records of Babylon,
Egypt, and India—Inspiration Unnecessary to the Truth—Usefulness of
Miracles to Fit Lies to Facts—Division of Darkness and Light—VII.
Tuesday—The Firmament and Some Biblical Notions about it—Laws of
Evaporation Unknown to the Inspired Writer—VIII. Wednesday—The Waters
Gathered into Seas—Fruit and Nothing to Eat it—Five Epochs in the
Organic History of the Earth—Balance between the Total Amounts of
Animal and Vegetable Life—Vegetation Prior to the Appearance of the
Sun—IX. Thursday—Sun and Moon Manufactured—Magnitude of the Solar
Orb—Dimensions of Some of the Planets—Moses' Guess at the Size of Sun
and Moon—Joshua's Control of the Heavenly Bodies—A Hypothesis Urged
by Ministers—The Theory of "Refraction"—Rev. Henry Morey—Astronomical
Knowledge of Chinese Savants—The Motion of the Earth Reversed by
Jehovah for the Reassurance of Ahaz—"Errors" Renounced by Button—X.
"He made the Stars Also"—Distance of the Nearest Star—XI.
Friday—Whales and Other Living Creatures Produced—XII.
Saturday—Reproduction Inaugurated—XIII. "Let Us Make Man"—Human
Beings Created in the Physical Image and Likeness of God—Inquiry as
to the Process Adopted—Development of Living Forms According to
Evolution—How Were Adam and Eve Created?—The Rib Story—Age of
Man Upon the Earth—A Statue Apparently Made before the World—XIV.
Sunday—Sacredness of the Sabbath Destroyed by the Theory of Vast
"Periods"—Reflections on the Sabbath—XV. The Necessity for a Good
Memory—The Two Accounts of the Creation in Genesis I and II—Order
of Creation in the First Account—Order of Creation in the Second
Account—Fastidiousness of Adam in the Choice of a Helpmeet—Dr.
Adam Clark's Commentary—Dr. Scott's Guess—Dr. Matthew Henry's
Admission—The Blonde and Brunette Problem—The Result of Unbelief and
the Reward of Faith—"Give Him a Harp"—XVI. The Garden—Location of
Eden—The Four Rivers—The Tree of Knowledge—Andover Appealed
To—XVII. The Fall—The Serpent—Dr. Adam Clark Gives a Zoological
Explanation—Dr. Henry Dissents—Whence This Serpent?—XVIII.
Dampness—A Race of Giants—Wickedness of Mankind—An Ark Constructed—A
Universal Flood Indicated—Animals Probably Admitted to the Ark—How Did
They Get There?—Problem of Food and Service—A Shoreless Sea Covered
with Innumerable Dead—Drs. Clark and Henry on the Situation—The Ark
Takes Ground—New Difficulties—Noah's Sacrifice—The Rainbow as a
Memorandum—Babylonian, Egyptian, and Indian Legends of a Flood—XIX.
Bacchus and Babel—Interest Attaching to Noah—Where Did Our First
Parents and the Serpent Acquire a Common Language?—Babel and the
Confusion of Tongues—XX. Faith in Filth—Immodesty of Biblical
Diction—XXI. The Hebrews—God's Promises to Abraham—The Sojourning
of Israel in Egypt—Marvelous Increase—Moses and Aaron—XXII.
The Plagues—Competitive Miracle Working—Defeat of the Local
Magicians—XXIII. The Flight Out of Egypt—Three Million People in a
Desert—Destruction of Pharaoh ana His Host—Manna—A Superfluity of
Quails—Rev. Alexander Cruden's Commentary—Hornets as Allies of the
Israelites—Durability of the Clothing of the Jewish People—An Ointment
Monopoly—Consecration of Priests—The Crime of Becoming a Mother—The
Ten Commandments—Medical Ideas of Jehovah—Character of the God of
the Pentateuch—XXIV. Confess and Avoid—XXV. "Inspired" Slavery—XXVI.
"Inspired" Marriage-XXVII. "Inspired" War-XXVIII. "Inspired" Religious
Liberty—XXIX. Conclusion.
(1881.)
I—Religion makes Enemies—Hatred in the Name of Universal
Benevolence—No Respect for the Rights of Barbarians—Literal
Fulfillment of a New Testament Prophecy—II. Duties to God—Can we
Assist God?—An Infinite Personality an Infinite Impossibility-Ill.
Inspiration—What it Really Is—Indication of Clams—Multitudinous
Laughter of the Sea—Horace Greeley and the Mammoth Trees—A Landscape
Compared to a Table-cloth—The Supernatural is the Deformed—Inspiration
in the Man as well as in the Book—Our Inspired Bible—IV. God's
Experiment with the Jews—Miracles of One Religion never astonish the
Priests of Another—"I am a Liar Myself"—V. Civilized Countries—Crimes
once regarded as Divine Institutions—What the Believer in the
Inspiration of the Bible is Compelled to Say—Passages apparently
written by the Devil—VI. A Comparison of Books—Advancing a Cannibal
from Missionary to Mutton—Contrast between the Utterances of Jehovah
and those of Reputable Heathen—Epictetus, Cicero, Zeno,
Seneca—the Hindu, Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius—The Avesta—VII.
Monotheism—Egyptians before Moses taught there was but One God
and Married but One Wife—Persians and Hindoos had a Single Supreme
Deity—Rights of Roman Women—Marvels of Art achieved without the
Assistance of Heaven—Probable Action of the Jewish Jehovah incarnated
as Man—VIII. The New Testament—Doctrine of Eternal Pain brought to
Light—Discrepancies—Human Weaknesses cannot be Predicated of
Divine Wisdom—Why there are Four Gospels according to Irenæus—The
Atonement—Remission of Sins under the Mosaic Dispensation—Christians
say, "Charge it"—God's Forgiveness does not Repair an Injury—Suffering
of Innocence for the Guilty—Salvation made Possible by Jehovah's
Failure to Civilize the Jews—Necessity of Belief not taught in the
Synoptic Gospels—Non-resistance the Offspring of Weakness—IX. Christ's
Mission—All the Virtues had been Taught before his Advent—Perfect and
Beautiful Thoughts of his Pagan Predecessors—St. Paul Contrasted
with Heathen Writers—"The Quality of Mercy"—X. Eternal Pain—An
Illustration of Eternal Punishment—Captain Kreuger of the Barque
Tiger—XI. Civilizing Influence of the Bible—Its Effects on the
Jews—If Christ was God, Did he not, in his Crucifixion, Reap what
he had Sown?—Nothing can add to the Misery of a Nation whose King is
Jehovah
(1884.)
Orthodox Religion Dying Out—Religious Deaths and Births—The Religion
of Reciprocity—Every Language has a Cemetery—Orthodox Institutions
Survive through the Money invested in them—"Let us tell our Real
Names"—The Blows that have Shattered the Shield and Shivered the Lance
of Superstition—Mohammed's Successful Defence of the Sepulchre of
Christ—The Destruction of Art—The Discovery of America—Although
he made it himself, the Holy Ghost was Ignorant of the Form of this
Earth—Copernicus and Kepler—Special Providence—The Man and the Ship
he did not Take—A Thanksgiving Proclamation Contradicted—Charles
Darwin—Henry Ward Beecher—The Creeds—The Latest Creed—God as
a Governor—The Love of God—The Fall of Man—We are Bound
by Representatives without a Chance to Vote against Them—The
Atonement—The Doctrine of Depravity a Libel on the Human Race—The
Second Birth—A Unitarian Universalist—Inspiration of the
Scriptures—God a Victim of his own Tyranny—In the New Testament
Trouble Commences at Death—The Reign of Truth and Love—The Old
Spaniard who Died without an Enemy—The Wars it Brought—Consolation
should be Denied to Murderers—At the Rate at which Heathen are being
Converted, how long will it take to Establish Christ's Kingdom on
Earth?—The Resurrection—The Judgment Day—Pious Evasions—"We shall
not Die, but we shall all be Hanged"—"No Bible, no Civilization"
Miracles of the New Testament—Nothing Written by Christ or his
Contemporaries—Genealogy of Jesus—More Miracles—A Master of
Death—Improbable that he would be Crucified—The Loaves and Fishes—How
did it happen that the Miracles Convinced so Few?—The Resurrection—The
Ascension—Was the Body Spiritual—Parting from the Disciples—Casting
out Devils—Necessity of Belief—God should be consistent in the
Matter of forgiving Enemies—Eternal Punishment—Some Good Men who are
Damned—Another Objection—Love the only Bow on Life's dark Cloud—"Now
is the accepted Time"—Rather than this Doctrine of Eternal Punishment
Should be True—I would rather that every Planet should in its Orbit
wheel a barren Star—What I Believe—Immortality—It existed long before
Moses—Consolation—The Promises are so Far Away, and the Dead are so
Near—Death a Wall or a Door—A Fable—Orpheus and Eurydice.
(1885.)
I. Happiness the true End and Aim of Life—Spiritual People and
their Literature—Shakespeare's Clowns superior to Inspired
Writers—Beethoven's Sixth Symphony Preferred to the Five Books of
Moses—Venus of Milo more Pleasing than the Presbyterian Creed—II.
Religions Naturally Produced—Poets the Myth-makers—The Sleeping
Beauty—Orpheus and Eurydice—Red Riding Hood—The Golden Age—Elysian
Fields—The Flood Myth—Myths of the Seasons—III. The Sun-god—Jonah,
Buddha, Chrisnna, Horus, Zoroaster—December 25th as a Birthday of
Gods—Christ a Sun-God—The Cross a Symbol of the Life to Come—When
Nature rocked the Cradle of the Infant World—IV. Difference between
a Myth and a Miracle—Raising the Dead, Past and Present—Miracles
of Jehovah—Miracles of Christ—Everything Told except the Truth—The
Mistake of the World—V. Beginning of Investigation—The Stars as
Witnesses against Superstition—Martyrdom of Bruno—Geology—Steam and
Electricity—Nature forever the Same—Persistence of Force—Cathedral,
Mosque, and Joss House have the same Foundation—Science the
Providence of Man—VI. To Soften the Heart of God—Martyrs—The God was
Silent—Credulity a Vice—Develop the Imagination—"The Skylark" and
"The Daisy"—VII. How are we to Civilize the World?—Put Theology out
of Religion—Divorce of Church and State—Secular Education—Godless
Schools—VIII. The New Jerusalem—Knowledge of the Supernatural
possessed by Savages—Beliefs of Primitive Peoples—Science is
Modest—Theology Arrogant—Torque-mada and Bruno on the Day of
Judgment—IX. Poison of Superstition in the Mother's Milk—Ability
of Mistakes to take Care of Themselves—Longevity of Religious
Lies—Mother's religion pleaded by the Cannibal—The Religion of
Freedom—O Liberty, thou art the God of my Idolatry
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.
(1891.)
I. The Greatest Genius of our World—Not of Supernatural Origin or
of Royal Blood—Illiteracy of his Parents—Education—His Father—His
Mother a Great Woman—Stratford Unconscious of the Immortal
Child—Social Position of Shakespeare—Of his Personal
Peculiarities—Birth, Marriage, and Death—What we Know of Him—No Line
written by him to be Found—The Absurd Epitaph—II. Contemporaries
by whom he was Mentioned—III. No direct Mention of any of his
Contemporaries in the Plays—Events and Personages of his Time—IV.
Position of the Actor in Shakespeare's Time—Fortunately he was Not
Educated at Oxford—An Idealist—His Indifference to Stage-carpentry
and Plot—He belonged to All Lands—Knew the Brain and Heart of Man—An
Intellectual Spendthrift—V. The Baconian Theory—VI. Dramatists before
and during the Time of Shakespeare—Dramatic Incidents Illustrated in
Passages from "Macbeth" and "Julius Cæsar"—VII. His Use of the Work of
Others—The Pontic Sea—A Passage from "Lear"—VIII. Extravagance that
touches the Infinite—The Greatest Compliment—"Let me not live after
my flame lacks oil"—Where Pathos almost Touches the Grotesque—IX.
An Innovator and Iconoclast—Disregard of the "Unities"—Nature
Forgets—Violation of the Classic Model—X. Types—The Secret of
Shakespeare—Characters who Act from Reason and Motive—What they Say
not the Opinion of Shakespeare—XI. The Procession that issued from
Shakespeare's Brain—His Great Women—Lovable Clowns—His Men—Talent
and Genius—XII. The Greatest of all Philosophers—Master of the
Human Heart—Love—XIII. In the Realm of Comparison—XIV. Definitions:
Suicide, Drama, Death, Memory, the Body, Life, Echo, the
World, Rumor—The Confidant of Nature—XV. Humor and
Pathos—Illustrations—XVI. Not a Physician, Lawyer, or Botanist—He was
a Man of Imagination—He lived the Life of All—The Imagination had a
Stage in Shakespeare's Brain.
(1878.)
Poetry and Poets—Milton, Dante, Petrarch—Old-time Poetry in
Scotland—Influence of Scenery on Literature—Lives that are
Poems—Birth of Burns—Early Life and Education—Scotland Emerging from
the Gloom of Calvinism—A Metaphysical Peasantry—Power of the Scotch
Preacher—Famous Scotch Names—John Barleycorn vs. Calvinism—Why Robert
Burns is Loved—His Reading—Made Goddesses of Women—Poet of Love: His
"Vision," "Bonnie Doon," "To Mary in Heaven"—Poet of Home:
"Cotter's Saturday Night," "John Anderson, My Jo"—Friendship: "Auld
Lang-Syne"—Scotch Drink: "Willie brew'd a peck o' maut"—Burns the
Artist: The "Brook," "Tam O'Shanter"—A Real Democrat: "A man's a man
for a' that"—His Theology: The Dogma of Eternal Pain, "Morality,"
"Hypocrisy," "Holy Willie's Prayer"—On the Bible—A Statement of his
Religion—Contrasted with Tennyson—From Cradle to Coffin—His Last
words—Lines on the Birth-place of Burns.
(1894.)
I. Simultaneous Birth of Lincoln and Darwin—Heroes of Every
Generation—Slavery—Principle Sacrificed to Success—Lincoln's
Childhood—His first Speech—A Candidate for the Senate against
Douglass—II. A Crisis in the Affairs of the Republic—The South Not
Alone Responsible for Slavery—Lincoln's Prophetic Words—Nominated for
President and Elected in Spite of his Fitness—III. Secession and
Civil War—The Thought uppermost in his Mind—IV. A Crisis in the
North—Proposition to Purchase the Slaves—V. The Proclamation of
Emancipation—His Letter to Horace Greeley—Waited on by Clergymen—VI.
Surrounded by Enemies—Hostile Attitude of Gladstone, Salisbury,
Louis Napoleon, and the Vatican—VII. Slavery the Perpetual
Stumbling-block—Confiscation—VIII. His Letter to a Republican
Meeting in Illinois—Its Effect—IX. The Power of His Personality—The
Embodiment of Mercy—Use of the Pardoning Power—X. The Vallandigham
Affair—The Horace Greeley Incident—Triumphs of Humor—XI. Promotion of
General Hooker—A Prophecy and its Fulfillment—XII.—States Rights vs.
Territorial Integrity—XIII. His Military Genius—The Foremost Man in
all the World: and then the Horror Came—XIV. Strange Mingling of Mirth
and Tears—Deformation of Great Historic Characters—Washington now
only a Steel Engraving—Lincoln not a Type—Virtues Necessary in a
New Country—Laws of Cultivated Society—In the Country is the Idea
of Home—Lincoln always a Pupil—A Great Lawyer—Many-sided—Wit and
Humor—As an Orator—His Speech at Gettysburg contrasted with the
Oration of Edward Everett—Apologetic in his Kindness—No Official
Robes—The gentlest Memory of our World.
(1894.)
I. Changes wrought by Time—Throne and Altar Twin Vultures—The King and
the Priest—What is Greatness?—Effect of Voltaire's Name on Clergyman
and Priest—Born and Baptized—State of France in 1694—The Church
at the Head—Efficacy of Prayers and Dead Saints—Bells and Holy
Water—Prevalence of Belief in Witches, Devils, and Fiends—Seeds of
the Revolution Scattered by Noble and Priest—Condition in England—The
Inquisition in full Control in Spain—Portugal and Germany burning
Women—Italy Prostrate beneath the Priests, the Puritans in America
persecuting Quakers, and stealing Children—II. The Days of Youth—His
Education—Chooses Literature as a Profession and becomes a Diplomat—In
Love and Disinherited—Unsuccessful Poem Competition—Jansenists
and Molinists—The Bull Unigenitus—Exiled to Tulle—Sent to the
Bastile—Exiled to England—Acquaintances made there—III. The Morn
of Manhood—His Attention turned to the History of the Church—The
"Triumphant Beast" Attacked—Europe Filled with the Product of his
Brain—What he Mocked—The Weapon of Ridicule—His Theology—His
"Retractions"—What Goethe said of Voltaire—IV. The Scheme of
Nature—His belief in the Optimism of Pope Destroyed by the Lisbon
Earthquake—V. His Humanity—Case of Jean Calas—The Sirven Family—The
Espenasse Case—Case of Chevalier de la Barre and D'Etallonde—Voltaire
Abandons France—A Friend of Education—An Abolitionist—Not
a Saint—VI. The Return—His Reception—His Death—Burial at
Romilli-on-the-Seine—VII. The Death-bed Argument—Serene Demise of
the Infamous—God has no Time to defend the Good and protect the
Pure—Eloquence of the Clergy on the Death-bed Subject—The
Second Return—Throned upon the Bastile—The Grave Desecrated by
Priests—Voltaire.
A Testimonial to Walt Whitman—Let us put Wreaths on the Brows of the
Living—Literary Ideals of the American People in 1855—"Leaves of
Grass"—Its reception by the Provincial Prudes—The Religion of the
Body—Appeal to Manhood and Womanhood—Books written for the
Market—The Index Expurgatorius—Whitman a believer in
Democracy—Individuality—Humanity—An Old-time Sea-fight—What is
Poetry?—Rhyme a Hindrance to Expression—Rhythm the Comrade of
the Poetic—Whitman's Attitude toward Religion—Philosophy—The Two
Poems—"A Word Out of the Sea"—"When Lilacs Last in the Door"—"A Chant
for Death"—
The History of Intellectual Progress is written in the Lives of
Infidels—The King and the Priest—The Origin of God and Heaven, of
the Devil and Hell—The Idea of Hell born of Ignorance, Brutality,
Cowardice, and Revenge—The Limitations of our Ancestors—The Devil
and God—Egotism of Barbarians—The Doctrine of Hell not an Exclusive
Possession of Christianity—The Appeal to the Cemetery—Religion and
Wealth, Christ and Poverty—The "Great" not on the Side of Christ and
his Disciples—Epitaphs as Battle-cries—Some Great Men in favor of
almost every Sect—Mistakes and Superstitions of Eminent Men—Sacred
Books—The Claim that all Moral Laws came from God through
the Jews—Fear—Martyrdom—God's Ways toward Men—The Emperor
Constantine—The Death Test—Theological Comity between Protestants and
Catholics—Julian—A childish Fable still Believed—Bruno—His Crime,
his Imprisonment and
(1890.)
"Old Age"—"Leaves of Grass"
(1881.)
Martyrdom—The First to die for Truth without Expectation of Reward—The
Church in the Time of Voltaire—Voltaire—Diderot—David Hume—Benedict
Spinoza—Our Infidels—Thomas Paine—Conclusion.
(1884.)
I. The Natural and the Supernatural—Living for the Benefit of
your Fellow-Man and Living for Ghosts—The Beginning of Doubt—Two
Philosophies of Life—Two Theories of Government—II. Is our God
superior to the Gods of the Heathen?—What our God has done—III. Two
Theories about the Cause and Cure of Disease—The First Physician—The
Bones of St. Anne Exhibited in New York—Archbishop Corrigan and
Cardinal Gibbons Countenance a Theological Fraud—A Japanese Story—The
Monk and the Miraculous Cures performed by the Bones of a Donkey
represented as those of a Saint—IV.—Two Ways of accounting for Sacred
Books and Religions—V-Two Theories about Morals—Nothing Miraculous
about Morality—The Test of all Actions—VI. Search for the
Impossible—Alchemy—"Perpetual Motion"—Astrology—Fountain of Perpetual
Youth—VII. "Great Men" and the Superstitions in which they have
Believed—VIII. Follies and Imbecilities of Great Men—We do not know
what they Thought, only what they Said—Names of Great Unbelievers—Most
Men Controlled by their Surroundings—IX. Living for God in Switzerland,
Scotland, New England—In the Dark Ages—Let us Live for Man—X. The
Narrow Road of Superstition—The Wide and Ample Way—Let us Squeeze the
Orange Dry—This Was, This Is, This Shall Be.
(1894.)
The Truth about the Bible Ought to be Told—I. The Origin of the
Bible—Establishment of the Mosaic Code—Moses not the Author of the
Pentateuch—Some Old Testament Books of Unknown Origin—II. Is the Old
Testament Inspired?—What an Inspired Book Ought to Be—What the Bible
Is—Admission of Orthodox Christians that it is not Inspired as to
Science—The Enemy of Art—III. The Ten Commandments—Omissions and
Redundancies—The Story of Achan—The Story of Elisha—The Story of
Daniel—The Story of Joseph—IV. What is it all Worth?—Not True, and
Contradictory—Its Myths Older than the Pentateuch—Other Accounts
of the Creation, the Fall, etc.—Books of the Old Testament Named
and Characterized—V. Was Jehovah a God of Love?—VI. Jehovah's
Administration—VII. The New Testament—Many Other Gospels besides
our Four—Disagreements—Belief in Devils—Raising of the Dead—Other
Miracles—Would a real Miracle-worker have been Crucified?—VIII.
The Philosophy of Christ—Love of
Enemies—Improvidence—Self-Mutilation—The Earth as a
Footstool—Justice—A Bringer of War—Division of Families—IX. Is Christ
our Example?—X. Why should we place Christ at the Top and Summit of the
Human Race?—How did he surpass Other Teachers?—What he left Unsaid,
and Why—Inspiration—Rejected Books of the New Testament—The Bible and
the Crimes it has Caused.
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
(1896.)
I. Influence of Birth in determining Religious Belief—Scotch, Irish,
English, and Americans Inherit their Faith—Religions of Nations
not Suddenly Changed—People who Knew—What they were Certain
About—Revivals—Character of Sermons Preached—Effect of Conversion—A
Vermont Farmer for whom Perdition had no Terrors—The Man and his
Dog—Backsliding and Re-birth—Ministers who were Sincere—A Free Will
Baptist on the Rich Man and Lazarus—II. The Orthodox God—The
Two Dispensations—The Infinite Horror—III. Religious Books—The
Commentators—Paley's Watch Argument—Milton, Young, and Pollok—IV.
Studying Astronomy—Geology—Denial and Evasion by the Clergy—V. The
Poems of Robert Burns—Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Shakespeare—VI.
Volney, Gibbon, and Thomas Paine—Voltaire's Services to Liberty—Pagans
Compared with Patriarchs—VII. Other Gods and Other Religions—Dogmas,
Myths, and Symbols of Christianity Older than our Era—VIII. The Men
of Science, Humboldt, Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Haeckel—IX. Matter and
Force Indestructible and Uncreatable—The Theory of Design—X. God an
Impossible Being—The Panorama of the Past—XI. Free from Sanctified
Mistakes and Holy Lies.
(1897.)
I. The Martyrdom of Man—How is Truth to be Found—Every Man should be
Mentally Honest—He should be Intellectually Hospitable—Geologists,
Chemists, Mechanics, and Professional Men are Seeking for the Truth—II.
Those who say that Slavery is Better than Liberty—Promises are not
Evidence—Horace Greeley and the Cold Stove—III. "The Science of
Theology" the only Dishonest Science—Moses and Brigham Young—Minds
Poisoned and Paralyzed in Youth—Sunday Schools and Theological
Seminaries—Orthodox Slanderers of Scientists—Religion has nothing
to do with Charity—Hospitals Built in Self-Defence—What Good has the
Church Accomplished?—Of what use are the Orthodox Ministers, and
What are they doing for the Good of Mankind—The Harm they are
Doing—Delusions they Teach—Truths they Should Tell about the
Bible—Conclusions—Our Christs and our Miracles.
(1896.)
I. "There is no Darkness but Ignorance"—False Notions Concerning
All Departments of Life—Changed Ideas about Science, Government and
Morals—II. How can we Reform the World?—Intellectual Light the First
Necessity—Avoid Waste of Wealth in War—III. Another Waste—Vast Amount
of Money Spent on the Church—IV. Plow can we Lessen Crime?—Frightful
Laws for the Punishment of Minor Crimes—A Penitentiary should be a
School—Professional Criminals should not be Allowed to Populate the
Earth—V. Homes for All-Make a Nation of Householders—Marriage
and Divorce-VI. The Labor Question—Employers cannot Govern
Prices—Railroads should Pay Pensions—What has been Accomplished
for the Improvement of the Condition of Labor—VII. Educate the
Children—Useless Knowledge—Liberty cannot be Sacrificed for the Sake
of Anything—False worship of Wealth—VIII. We must Work and Wait.
(1897.)
I. Our fathers Ages Ago—From Savagery to Civilization—For the
Blessings we enjoy, Whom should we Thank?—What Good has the Church
Done?-Did Christ add to the Sum of Useful Knowledge—The Saints—What
have the Councils and Synods Done?—What they Gave us, and What they
did Not—Shall we Thank them for the Hell Here and for the Hell of
the Future?—II. What Does God Do?—The Infinite Juggler and his
Puppets—What the Puppets have Done—Shall we Thank these
Gods?—Shall we Thank Nature?—III. Men who deserve our Thanks—The
Infidels, Philanthropists and Scientists—The Discoverers and
Inventors—Magellan—Copernicus—Bruno—Galileo—Kepler, Herschel,
Newton, and LaPlace—Lyell—What the Worldly have Done—Origin and
Vicissitudes of the Bible—The Septuagint—Investigating the Phenomena
of Nature—IV. We thank the Good Men and Good Women of the Past—The
Poets, Dramatists, and Artists—The Statesmen—Paine, Jefferson,
Ericsson, Lincoln. Grant—Voltaire, Humboldt, Darwin.
(1886.)
Prayer of King Lear—When Honesty wears a Rag and Rascality a Robe-The
Nonsense of "Free Moral Agency "—Doing Right is not Self-denial-Wealth
often a Gilded Hell—The Log House—Insanity of Getting
More—Great Wealth the Mother of Crime—Separation of Rich and
Poor—Emulation—Invention of Machines to Save Labor—Production and
Destitution—The Remedy a Division of the Land—Evils of Tenement
Houses—Ownership and Use—The Great Weapon is the Ballot—Sewing
Women—Strikes and Boycotts of No Avail—Anarchy, Communism, and
Socialism—The Children of the Rich a Punishment for Wealth—Workingmen
Not a Danger—The Criminals a Necessary Product—Society's Right
to Punish—The Efficacy of Kindness—Labor is Honorable—Mental
Independence.
(1895.)
I. The Old Testament—Story of the Creation—Age of the Earth and
of Man—Astronomical Calculations of the Egyptians—The Flood—The
Firmament a Fiction—Israelites who went into Egypt—Battles of the
Jews—Area of Palestine—Gold Collected by David for the Temple—II. The
New Testament—Discrepancies about the Birth of Christ—Herod and
the Wise Men—The Murder of the Babes of Bethlehem—When was Christ
born—Cyrenius and the Census of the World—Genealogy of Christ
according to Matthew and Luke—The Slaying of Zacharias—Appearance of
the Saints at the Crucifixion—The Death of Judas Iscariot—Did
Christ wish to be Convicted?—III. Jehovah—IV. The Trinity—The
Incarnation—Was Christ God?—The Trinity Expounded—"Let us pray"—V.
The Theological Christ—Sayings of a Contradictory Character—Christ a
Devout Jew—An ascetic—His Philosophy—The Ascension—The Best that Can
be Said about Christ—The Part that is beautiful and Glorious—The Other
Side—VI. The Scheme of Redemption—VII. Belief—Eternal Pain—No Hope
in Hell, Pity in Heaven, or Mercy in the Heart of God—VIII. Conclusion.
(1898.)
I. What is Superstition?—Popular Beliefs about the Significance
of Signs, Lucky and Unlucky Numbers, Days, Accidents, Jewels,
etc.—Eclipses, Earthquakes, and Cyclones as Omens—Signs and Wonders
of the Heavens—Efficacy of Bones and Rags of Saints—Diseases and
Devils—II. Witchcraft—Necromancers—What is a Miracle?—The Uniformity
of Nature—III. Belief in the Existence of Good Spirits or Angels—God
and the Devil—When Everything was done by the Supernatural—IV. All
these Beliefs now Rejected by Men of Intelligence—The Devil's Success
Made the Coming of Christ a Necessity—"Thou shalt not Suffer a Witch
to Live"—Some Biblical Angels—Vanished Visions—V. Where are Heaven
and Hell?—Prayers Never Answered—The Doctrine of Design—Why Worship
our Ignorance?—Would God Lead us into Temptation?—President McKinley's
Thanks giving for the Santiago Victory—VI. What Harm Does Superstition
Do?—The Heart Hardens and the Brain Softens—What Superstition has Done
and Taught—Fate of Spain—Of Portugal, Austria, Germany—VII. Inspired
Books—Mysteries added to by the Explanations of Theologians—The
Inspired Bible the Greatest Curse of Christendom—VIII. Modifications
of Jehovah—Changing the Bible—IX. Centuries of Darkness—The Church
Triumphant—When Men began to Think—X. Possibly these Superstitions are
True, but We have no Evidence—We Believe in the Natural—Science is the
Real Redeemer.
(1899.)
I. If the Devil should Die, would God Make Another?—How was the Idea
of a Devil Produced—Other Devils than Ours—Natural Origin of these
Monsters—II. The Atlas of Christianity is The Devil—The Devil of the
Old Testament—The Serpent in Eden—"Personifications" of Evil—Satan
and Job—Satan and David—III. Take the Devil from the Drama
of Christianity and the Plot is Gone—Jesus Tempted by the Evil
One—Demoniac Possession—Mary Magdalene—Satan and Judas—Incubi
and Succubi—The Apostles believed in Miracles and Magic—The Pool of
Bethesda—IV. The Evidence of the Church—The Devil was forced to
Father the Failures of God—Belief of the Fathers of the Church
in Devils—Exorcism at the Baptism of an Infant in the Sixteenth
Century—Belief in Devils made the Universe a Madhouse presided over by
an Insane God—V. Personifications of the Devil—The Orthodox Ostrich
Thrusts his Head into the Sand—If Devils are Personifications so are
all the Other Characters of the Bible—VI. Some Queries about the
Devil, his Place of Residence, his Manner of Living, and his Object in
Life—Interrogatories to the Clergy—VII. The Man of Straw the Master
of the Orthodox Ministers—His recent Accomplishments—VIII. Keep the
Devils out of Children—IX. Conclusion.—Declaration of the Free.
(1860-64.)
The Prosperity of the World depends upon its Workers—Veneration for the
Ancient—Credulity and Faith of the Middle Ages—Penalty for Reading
the Scripture in the Mother Tongue—Unjust, Bloody, and Cruel Laws—The
Reformers too were Persecutors—Bigotry of Luther and Knox—Persecution
of Castalio—Montaigne against Torture in France—"Witchcraft" (chapter
on)—Confessed Wizards—A Case before Sir Matthew Hale—Belief
in Lycanthropy—Animals Tried and Executed—Animals received
as Witnesses—The Corsned or Morsel of Execution—Kepler an
Astrologer—Luther's Encounter with the Devil—Mathematician
Stoefflers, Astronomical Prediction of a Flood—Histories Filled with
Falsehood—Legend about the Daughter of Pharaoh invading Scotland and
giving the Country her name—A Story about Mohammed—A History of the
Britains written by Archdeacons—Ingenuous Remark of Eusebius—Progress
in the Mechanic Arts—England at the beginning of the Eighteenth
Century—Barbarous Punishments—Queen Elizabeth's Order Concerning
Clergymen and Servant Girls—Inventions of Watt, Arkwright, and
Others—Solomon's Deprivations—Language (chapter on)—Belief that the
Hebrew was< the original Tongue—Speculations about the Language
of Paradise—Geography (chapter on)—The Works of Cosmas—Printing
Invented—Church's Opposition to Books—The Inquisition—The
Reformation—"Slavery" (chapter on)—Voltaire's Remark on Slavery as
a Contract—White Slaves in Greece, Rome, England, Scotland, and
France—Free minds make Free Bodies—Causes of the Abolition of White
Slavery in Europe—The French Revolution—The African Slave Trade,
its Beginning and End—Liberty Triumphed (chapter head)—Abolition of
Chattel Slavery—Conclusion.
(1899.)
I. Belief in God and Sacrifice—Did an Infinite God Create the Children
of Men and is he the Governor of the Universe?—II. If this God Exists,
how do we Know he is Good?—Should both the Inferior and the Superior
thank God for their Condition?—III. The Power that Works for
Righteousness—What is this Power?—The Accumulated Experience of the
World is a Power Working for Good?—Love the Commencement of the Higher
Virtues—IV. What has our Religion Done?—Would Christians have been
Worse had they Adopted another Faith?—V. How Can Mankind be Reformed
Without Religion?—VI. The Four Corner-stones of my Theory—VII. Matter
and Force Eternal—Links in the Chain of Evolution—VIII. Reform—The
Gutter as a Nursery—Can we Prevent the Unfit from Filling the World
with their Children?—Science must make Woman the Owner and Mistress
of Herself—Morality Born of Intelligence—IX. Real Religion and Real
Worship.
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
INGERSOLL'S INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.
A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.
INGERSOLL'S SIX INTERVIEWS ON TALMAGE.
(1882.)
Preface—First Interview: Great Men as Witnesses
to the Truth of the Gospel—No man should quote
the Words of Another unless he is willing to
Accept all the Opinions of that Man—Reasons of
more Weight than Reputations—Would a general
Acceptance of Unbelief fill the Penitentiaries?—
My Creed—Most Criminals Orthodox—Relig-ion and
Morality not Necessarily Associates—On the
Creation of the Universe out of Omnipotence—Mr.
Talmage's Theory about the Pro-duction of Light
prior to the Creation of the Sun—The Deluge and
the Ark—Mr. Talmage's tendency to Belittle the
Bible Miracles—His Chemical, Geological, and
Agricultural Views—His Disregard of Good Manners-
-Second Interview: An Insulting Text—God's Design
in Creating Guiteau to be the Assassin of
Garfield—Mr. Talmage brings the Charge of
Blasphemy—Some Real Blasphemers—The Tabernacle
Pastor tells the exact Opposite of the Truth about
Col. Ingersoll's Attitude toward the Circulation
of Immoral Books—"Assassinating" God—Mr.
Talmage finds Nearly All the Invention of Modern
Times Mentioned in the Bible—The Reverend
Gentleman corrects the Translators of the Bible in
the Matter of the Rib Story—Denies that Polygamy
is permitted by the Old Testament—His De-fence of
Queen Victoria and Violation of the Grave of
George Eliot—Exhibits a Christian Spirit—Third
Interview: Mr. Talmage's Partiality in the
Bestowal of his Love—Denies the Right of Laymen
to Examine the Scriptures—Thinks the Infidels
Victims of Bibliophobia —He explains the Stopping
of the Sun and Moon at the Command of Joshua—
Instances a Dark Day in the Early Part of the
Century—Charges that Holy Things are Made Light
of—Reaffirms his Confidence in the Whale and
Jonah Story—The Commandment which Forbids the
making of Graven Images—Affirmation that the
Bible is the Friend of Woman—The Present
Condition of Woman—Fourth Interview: Colonel
Ingersoll Compared by Mr. Talmage tojehoiakim, who
Consigned Writings of Jeremiah to the Flames—An
Intimation that Infidels wish to have all copies
of the Bible Destroyed by Fire—Laughter
Deprecated—Col. Ingersoll Accused of Denouncing
his Father—Mr. Talmage holds that a Man may be
Perfectly Happy in Heaven with His Mother in Hell-
-Challenges the Infidel to Read a Chapter from St.
John—On the "Chief Solace of the World"—Dis-
covers an Attempt is being made to Put Out the
Light-houses of the Farther Shore—Affirms our
Debt to Christianity for Schools, Hospitals,
etc.—Denies that Infidels have ever Done any
Good—
Fifth Interview: Inquiries if Men gather Grapes of
Thorns, or Figs of Thistles, and is Answered in
the Negative—Resents the Charge that the Bible is
a Cruel Book—Demands to Know where the Cruelty of
the Bible Crops out in the Lives of Christians—
Col. Ingersoll Accused of saying that the Bible
is a Collection of Polluted Writings—Mr. Talmage
Asserts the Orchestral Harmony of the Scriptures
from Genesis to Revelation, and Repudiates the
Theory of Contradictions—His View of Mankind
Indicated in Quotations from his Confession of
Faith—He Insists that the Bible is Scientific—
Traces the New Testament to its Source with St.
John—Pledges his Word that no Man ever Died for a
Lie Cheerfully and Triumphantly—As to Prophecies
and Predictions—Alleged "Prophetic" Fate of the
Jewish People—Sixth Interview: Dr. Talmage takes
the Ground that the Unrivalled Circulation of the
Bible Proves that it is Inspired—Forgets' that a
Scientific Fact does not depend on the Vote of
Numbers—Names some Christian Millions—His
Arguments Characterized as the Poor-est, Weakest,
and Best Possible in Support of the Doctrine of
Inspira-tion—Will God, in Judging a Man, take
into Consideration the Cir-cumstances of that
Man's Life?—Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believ-
ing that the Bible is inspired.
THE TALMAGIAN CATECHISM.
The Pith and Marrow of what Mr. Talmage has been
Pleased to Say, set forth in the form of a Shorter
Catechism.
A VINDICATION OF THOMAS PAINE.
(1877.)
Letter to the New York Observer—An Offer to Pay
One Thousand Dollars in Gold for Proof that Thomas
Paine or Voltaire Died in Terror because of any
Religious Opinions Either had Expressed—
Proposition to Create a Tribunal to Hear the
Evidence—The Ob-server, after having Called upon
Col. Ingersoll to Deposit the Money, and
Characterized his Talk as "Infidel 'Buncombe,'"
Denies its Own Words, but attempts to Prove them—
Its Memory Refreshed by Col. Ingersoll and the
Slander Refuted—Proof that Paine did Not Recant -
-Testimony of Thomas Nixon, Daniel Pelton, Mr.
Jarvis, B. F. Has-kin, Dr. Manley, Amasa
Woodsworth, Gilbert Vale, Philip Graves, M. D.,
Willet Hicks, A. C. Hankinson, John Hogeboom, W.
J. Hilton, Tames Cheetham, Revs. Milledollar and
Cunningham, Mrs. Hedden, Andrew A. Dean, William
Carver,—The Statements of Mary Roscoe and Mary
Hindsdale Examined—William Cobbett's Account of a
Call upon Mary Hinsdale—Did Thomas Paine live the
Life of a Drunken Beast, and did he Die a Drunken,
Cowardly, and Beastly Death?—Grant Thorbum's
Charges Examined—Statement of the Rev. J. D.
Wickham, D.D., shown to be Utterly False—False
Witness of the Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D.—W. H.
Ladd, James Cheetham, and Mary Hinsdale—Paine's
Note to Cheetham—Mr-Staple, Mr. Purdy, Col. John
Fellows, James Wilburn, Walter Morton, Clio
Rickman, Judge Herttell, H. Margary, Elihu Palmer,
Mr.
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Lovett, all these Testified that Paine was a
Temperate Man—Washington's Letter to Paine—
Thomas Jefferson's—Adams and Washing-ton on
"Common Sense"—-James Monroe's Tribute—
Quotations from Paine—Paine's Estate and His
Will—The Observer's Second Attack (p. 492):
Statements of Elkana Watson, William Carver, Rev.
E. F. Hatfield, D.D., James Cheetham, Dr. J. W.
Francis, Dr. Manley, Bishop Fenwick—Ingersoll's
Second Reply (p. 516): Testimony Garbled by the
Editor of the Observer—Mary Roscoeand Mary Hins-
dale the Same Person—Her Reputation for Veracity-
-Letter from Rev. A. W. Cornell—Grant Thorburn
Exposed by James Parton—The Observer's Admission
that Paine did not Recant—Affidavit of
William B. Barnes.
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY JEREMIAH S. BLACK.
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.
A REPLY TO THE REV. HENRY M. FIELD, D.D.
A LAST WORD TO ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
COL. INGERSOLL TO MR. GLADSTONE.
THE CHURCH ITS OWN WITNESS, By Cardinal Manning.
ROME OR REASON: A REPLY TO CARDINAL MANNING.
IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; INGERSOLL'S OPENING PAPER
(1881.)
I. Col. Ingersoll's Opening Paper—Statement of the Fundamental Truths
of Christianity—Reasons for Thinking that Portions of the Old Testament
are the Product of a Barbarous People—Passages upholding
Slavery, Polygamy, War, and Religious Persecution not Evidences of
Inspiration—If the Words are not Inspired, What Is?—Commands of
Jehovah compared with the Precepts of Pagans and Stoics—Epictetus,
Cicero, Zeno, Seneca, Brahma—II. The New Testament—Why were
Four Gospels Necessary?—Salvation by Belief—The Doctrine of
the Atonement—The Jewish System Culminating in the Sacrifice of
Christ—Except for the Crucifixion of her Son, the Virgin Mary would be
among the Lost—What Christ must have Known would Follow the Acceptance
of His Teachings—The Wars of Sects, the Inquisition, the Fields of
Death—Why did he not Forbid it All?—The Little that he Revealed—The
Dogma of Eternal Punishment—Upon Love's Breast the Church has Placed
the Eternal Asp—III. The "Inspired" Writers—Why did not God furnish
Every Nation with a Bible?
II. Judge Black's Reply—His Duty that of a Policeman—The Church not
in Danger—Classes who Break out into Articulate Blasphemy—The
Sciolist—Personal Remarks about Col. Ingersoll—Chief-Justice Gibson of
Pennsylvania Quoted—We have no Jurisdiction or Capacity to Rejudge the
Justice of God—The Moral Code of the Bible—Civil Government of the
Jews—No Standard of Justice without Belief in a God—Punishments for
Blasphemy and Idolatry Defended—Wars of Conquest—Allusion to Col.
Ingersoll's War Record—Slavery among the Jews—Polygamy Discouraged by
the Mosaic Constitution—Jesus of Nazareth and the Establishment of
his Religion—Acceptance of Christianity and Adjudication upon its
Divinity—The Evangelists and their Depositions—The Fundamental Truths
of Christianity—Persecution and Triumph of the Church—Ingersoll's
Propositions Compressed and the Compressions Answered—Salvation as a
Reward of Belief—Punishment of Unbelief—The Second Birth, Atonement,
Redemption, Non-resistance, Excessive Punishment of Sinners, Christ and
Persecution, Christianity and Freedom of Thought, Sufficiency of the
Gospel, Miracles, Moral Effect of Christianity.
III. Col. Ingersoll's Rejoinder—How this Discussion Came About—Natural
Law—The Design Argument—The Right to Rejudge the Justice even of a
God—Violation of the Commandments by Jehovah—Religious Intolerance
of the Old Testament—Judge Black's Justification of Wars of
Extermination—His Defence of Slavery—Polygamy not "Discouraged" by the
Old Testament—Position of Woman under the Jewish System and under that
of the Ancients—a "Policeman's" View of God—Slavery under Jehovah
and in Egypt—The Admission that Jehovah gave no Commandment against
Polygamy—The Learned and Wise Crawl back in Cribs—Alleged Harmony of
Old and New Testaments—On the Assertion that the Spread of Christianity
Proves the Supernatural Origin of the Gospel—The Argument applicable to
All Religions—Communications from Angels ana Gods—Authenticity of
the Statements of the Evangelists—Three Important Manuscripts—Rise
of Mormonism—Ascension of Christ—The Great Public Events alleged
as Fundamental Truths of Christianity—Judge Black's System
of "Compression"—"A Metaphysical Question"—Right and
Wrong—Justice—Christianity and Freedom of Thought—Heaven and
Hell—Production of God and the Devil—Inspiration of the Bible
dependent on the Credulity of the Reader—Doubt of Miracles—The
World before Christ's Advent—Respect for the Man Christ—The Dark
Ages—Institutions of Mercy—Civil Law.
THE FIELD-INGERSOLL DISCUSSION.
(1887.)
An Open Letter to Robert G. Ingersoll—Superstitions—Basis of
Religion—Napoleon's Question about the Stars—The Idea of God—Crushing
out Hope—Atonement, Regeneration, and Future Retribution—Socrates and
Jesus—The Language of Col. Ingersoll characterized as too Sweeping—The
Sabbath—But a Step from Sneering at Religion to Sneering at Morality.
A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D.—Honest Differences of
Opinion—Charles Darwin—Dr. Field's Distinction between Superstition
and Religion—The Presbyterian God an Infinite Torquemada—Napoleon's
Sensitiveness to the Divine Influence—The Preference of Agassiz—The
Mysterious as an Explanation—The Certainty that God is not what he
is Thought to Be—Self-preservation the Fibre of Society—Did
the Assassination of Lincoln Illustrate the Justice of God's
Judgments?—Immortality—Hope and the Presbyterian Creed—To a Mother
at the Grave of Her Son—Theological Teaching of Forgiveness—On
Eternal Retribution—Jesus and Mohammed—Attacking the Religion of
Others—Ananias and Sapphira—The Pilgrims and Freedom to Worship—The
Orthodox Sabbath—Natural Restraints on Conduct—Religion and
Morality—The Efficacy of Prayer—Respect for Belief of Father and
Mother—The "Power behind Nature"—Survival of the Fittest—The Saddest
Fact—"Sober Second Thought."
A Last Word to Robert G. Ingersoll, by Dr. Field—God not a
Presbyterian—Why Col. Ingersoll's Attacks on Religion are Resented—God
is more Merciful than Man—Theories about the Future Life—Retribution
a Necessary Part of the Divine Law—The Case of Robinson
Crusoe—Irresistible Proof of Design—Col. Ingersoll's View of
Immortality—An Almighty Friend.
Letter to Dr. Field—The Presbyterian God—What the Presbyterians
Claim—The "Incurably Bad"—Responsibility for not seeing Things
Clearly—Good Deeds should Follow even Atheists—No Credit in
Belief—Design Argument that Devours Itself—Belief as a Foundation
of Social Order—No Consolation in Orthodox Religion—The "Almighty
Friend" and the Slave Mother—a Hindu Prayer—Calvinism—Christ not the
Supreme Benefactor of the Race.
COLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY.
(1888.)
Some Remarks on his Reply to Dr. Field by the Hon. Wm. E.
Gladstone—External Triumph and Prosperity of the Church—A Truth Half
Stated—Col. Ingersoll's Tumultuous Method and lack of Reverential
Calm—Jephthah's Sacrifice—Hebrews xii Expounded—The Case of
Abraham—Darwinism and the Scriptures—Why God demands Sacrifices of
Man—Problems admitted to be Insoluble—Relation of human Genius
to Human Greatness—Shakespeare and Others—Christ and the Family
Relation—Inaccuracy of Reference in the Reply—Ananias and
Sapphira—The Idea of Immortality—Immunity of Error in Belief from
Moral Responsibility—On Dishonesty in the Formation of Opinion—A
Plausibility of the Shallowest kind—The System of Thuggism—Persecution
for Opinion's Sake—Riding an Unbroken Horse.
Col. Ingersoll to Mr. Gladstone—On the "Impaired" State of the human
Constitution—Unbelief not Due to Degeneracy—Objections to the
Scheme of Redemption—Does Man Deserve only Punishment?—"Reverential
Calm"—The Deity of the Ancient Jews—Jephthah and Abraham—Relation
between Darwinism and the Inspiration of the Scriptures—Sacrifices to
the Infinite—What is Common Sense?—An Argument that will Defend every
Superstition—The Greatness of Shakespeare—The Absolute Indissolubility
of Marriage—Is the Religion of Christ for this Age?—As to Ananias and
Sapphira—Immortality and People of Low Intellectual Development—Can
we Control our Thought?—Dishonest Opinions Cannot be Formed—Some
Compensations for Riding an "Unbroken Horse."
(1888.)
"The Church Its Own Witness," by Cardinal Manning—Evidence
that Christianity is of Divine Origin—The Universality of the
Church—Natural Causes not Sufficient to Account for the Catholic
Church—-The World in which Christianity Arose—Birth of Christ—From
St Peter to Leo XIII.—The First Effect of Christianity—Domestic
Life's Second Visible Effect—Redemption of Woman from traditional
Degradation—Change Wrought by Christianity upon the Social, Political
and International Relations of the World—Proof that Christianity is of
Divine Origin and Presence—St. John and the Christian Fathers—Sanctity
of the Church not Affected by Human Sins.
A Reply to Cardinal Manning—I. Success not a Demonstration of either
Divine Origin or Supernatural Aid—Cardinal Manning's Argument
More Forcible in the Mouth of a Mohammedan—Why Churches Rise and
Flourish—Mormonism—Alleged Universality of the Catholic Church—Its
"inexhaustible Fruitfulness" in Good Things—The Inquisition and
Persecution—Not Invincible—Its Sword used by Spain—Its Unity not
Unbroken—The State of the World when Christianity was Established—The
Vicar of Christ—A Selection from Draper's "History of the Intellectual
Development of Europe"—Some infamous Popes—Part II. How the Pope
Speaks—Religions Older than Catholicism and having the Same Rites
and Sacraments—Is Intellectual Stagnation a Demonstration of Divine
Origin?—Integration and Disintegration—The Condition of the World 300
Years Ago—The Creed of Catholicism—The "One true God" with a Knowledge
of whom Catholicism has "filled the World"—Did the Catholic Church
overthrow Idolatry?—Marriage—Celibacy—Human Passions—The Cardinal's
Explanation of Jehovah's abandonment of the Children of Men for
four thousand Years—Catholicism tested by Paganism—Canon Law
and Convictions had Under It—Rival Popes—Importance of a Greek
"Inflection"—The Cardinal Witnesses.
(1889.)
Preface by the Editor of the North American Review—Introduction, by the
Rev. S. W. Dike, LL. D.—A Catholic View by Cardinal Gibbons—Divorce
as Regarded by the Episcopal Church, by Bishop, Henry C. Potter—Four
Questions Answered, by Robert G. Ingersoll.
Reply to Cardinal Gibbons—Indissolubility of Marriage a Reaction
from Polygamy—Biblical Marriage—Polygamy Simultaneous and
Successive—Marriage and Divorce in the Light of Experience—Reply
to Bishop Potter—Reply to Mr. Gladstone—Justice Bradley—Senator
Dolph—The argument Continued in Colloquial Form—Dialogue between
Cardinal Gibbons and a Maltreated Wife—She Asks the Advice of Mr.
Gladstone—The Priest who Violated his Vow—Absurdity of the Divorce
laws of Some States.
REPLY TO DR. LYMAN ABBOTT.
(1890)
Dr. Abbott's Equivocations—Crimes Punishable by Death under Mosaic
and English Law—Severity of Moses Accounted for by Dr. Abbott—The
Necessity for the Acceptance of Christianity—Christians should be
Glad to Know that the Bible is only the Work of Man and that the New
Testament Life of Christ is Untrue—All the Good Commandments, Known
to the World thousands of Years before Moses—Human Happiness of
More Consequence than the Truth about God—The Appeal to Great
Names—Gladstone not the Greatest Statesman—What the Agnostic Says—The
Magnificent Mistakes of Genesis—The Story of Joseph—Abraham as a
"self-Exile for Conscience's Sake."
REPLY TO ARCHDEACON FARRAR.
(1890.)
Revelation as an Appeal to Man's "Spirit"—What is Spirit and what is
"Spiritual Intuition"?—The Archdeacon in Conflict with St. Paul—II.
The Obligation to Believe without Evidence—III. Ignorant Credulity—IV.
A Definition of Orthodoxy—V. Fear not necessarily Cowardice—Prejudice
is Honest—The Ola has the Advantage in an Argument—St.
Augustine—Jerome—the Appeal to Charlemagne—Roger Bacon—Lord Bacon
a Defender of the Copernican System—The Difficulty of finding out
what Great Men Believed—Names Irrelevantly Cited—Bancroft on the
Hessians—Original Manuscripts of the Bible—VI. An Infinite Personality
a Contradiction in Terms—VII. A Beginningless Being—VIII. The
Cruelties of Nature not to be Harmonized with the Goodness of a
Deity—Sayings from the Indian—Origen, St. Augustine, Dante, Aquinas.
IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT DEGRADING?
(1890.)
A Reply to the Dean of St. Paul—Growing Confidence in the Power of
Kindness—Crimes against Soldiers and Sailors—Misfortunes Punished
as Crimes—The Dean's Voice Raised in Favor of the Brutalities of the
Past—Beating of Children—Of Wives—Dictum of Solomon.
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.
THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION.
A REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.
AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.
A REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.
A REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.
A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.
A REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.
(1877.)
Answer to San Francisco Clergymen—Definition of Liberty, Physical
and Mental—The Right to Compel Belief—Woman the Equal of Man—The
Ghosts—Immortality—Slavery—Witchcraft—Aristocracy of the
Air—Unfairness of Clerical Critics—Force and Matter—Doctrine of
Negation—Confident Deaths of Murderers—Childhood Scenes returned to
by the Dying—Death-bed of Voltaire—Thomas Paine—The First
Sectarians Were Heretics—Reply to Rev. Mr. Guard—Slaughter of
the Canaanites—Reply to Rev. Samuel Robinson—Protestant
Persecutions—Toleration—Infidelity and Progress—The
Occident—Calvinism—Religious Editors—Reply to the Rev. Mr.
Ijams—Does the Bible teach Man to Enslave his Brothers?—Reply to
California Christian Advocate—Self-Government of French People at
and Since the Revolution—On the Site of the Bastile—French
Peasant's Cheers for Jesus Christ—Was the World created in Six
Days—Geology—What is the Astronomy of the Bible?—The Earth the Centre
of the Universe—Joshua's Miracle—Change of Motion into Heat—Geography
and Astronomy of Cosmas—Does the Bible teach the Existence of
that Impossible Crime called Witchcraft?—Saul and the Woman of
Endor—Familiar Spirits—Demonology of the New Testament—Temptation of
Jesus—Possession by Devils—Gadarene Swine Story—Test of Belief—Bible
Idea of the Rights of Children—Punishment of the Rebellious
Son—Jephthah's Vow and Sacrifice—Persecution of Job—The Gallantry
of God—Bible Idea of the Rights of Women—Paul's Instructions to
Wives—Permission given to Steal Wives—Does the Bible Sanction
Polygamy and Concubinage?—Does the Bible Uphold and Justify Political
Tyranny?—Powers that be Ordained of God—Religious Liberty of
God—Sun-Worship punishable with Death—Unbelievers to be damned—Does
the Bible describe a God of Mercy?—Massacre Commanded—Eternal
Punishment Taught in the New Testament—The Plan of Salvation—Fall
and Atonement Moral Bankruptcy—Other Religions—Parsee
Sect—Brahmins—Confucians—Heretics and Orthodox.
(1879.)
Rev. Robert Collyer—Inspiration of the Scriptures—Rev. Dr.
Thomas—Formation of the Old Testament—Rev. Dr. Kohler—Rev. Mr.
Herford—Prof. Swing—Rev. Dr. Ryder.
TO THE INDIANAPOLIS CLERGY.
(1882.)
Rev. David Walk—Character of Jesus—Two or Three Christs Described
in the Gospels—Christ's Change of Opinions—Gospels Later than the
Epistles—Divine Parentage of Christ a Late Belief—The Man Christ
probably a Historical Character—Jesus Belittled by his Worshipers—He
never Claimed to be Divine—Christ's Omissions—Difference between
Christian and other Modern Civilizations—Civilization not Promoted
by Religion—Inventors—French and American Civilization: How
Produced—Intemperance and Slavery in Christian Nations—Advance due to
Inventions and Discoveries—Missionaries—Christian Nations Preserved by
Bayonet and Ball—Dr. T. B. Taylor—Origin of Life on this Planet—Sir
William Thomson—Origin of Things Undiscoverable—Existence after
Death—Spiritualists—If the Dead Return—Our Calendar—Christ and
Christmas-The Existence of Pain—Plato's Theory of Evil—Will God do
Better in Another World than he does in this?—Consolation—Life Not a
Probationary Stage—Rev. D.O'Donaghue—The Case of Archibald Armstrong
and Jonathan Newgate—Inequalities of Life—Can Criminals live a
Contented Life?—Justice of the Orthodox God Illustrated.
(1883.)
Are the Books of Atheistic or Infidel Writers Extensively
Read?—Increase in the Number of Infidels—Spread of Scientific
Literature—Rev. Dr. Eddy—Rev. Dr. Hawkins—Rev. Dr. Haynes—Rev.
Mr. Pullman—Rev. Mr. Foote—Rev. Mr. Wells—Rev. Dr. Van Dyke—Rev.
Carpenter—Rev. Mr. Reed—Rev. Dr. McClelland—Ministers Opposed to
Discussion—Whipping Children—Worldliness as a Foe of the Church—The
Drama—Human Love—Fires, Cyclones, and Other Afflictions as Promoters
of Spirituality—Class Distinctions—Rich and Poor—Aristocracies—The
Right to Choose One's Associates—Churches Social Affairs—Progress
of the Roman Catholic Church—Substitutes for the Churches—Henry
Ward Beecher—How far Education is Favored by the Sects—Rivals of the
Pulpit—Christianity Now and One Hundred Years Ago—French Revolution
produced by the Priests—Why the Revolution was a Failure—Infidelity
of One Hundred Years Ago—Ministers not more Intellectual than a Century
Ago—Great Preachers of the Past—New Readings of Old Texts—Clerical
Answerers of Infidelity—Rev. Dr. Baker—Father Fransiola—Faith and
Reason—Democracy of Kindness—Moral Instruction—Morality Born of Human
Needs—The Conditions of Happiness—The Chief End of Man.
THE LIMITATIONS OF TOLERATION.
(1888.)
Discussion between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert,
and ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford before the Nineteenth Century Club of
New York—Propositions—Toleration not a Disclaimer but a Waiver of the
Right to Persecute—Remarks of Courtlandt Palmer—No Responsibility for
Thought—Intellectual Hospitality—Right of Free Speech—Origin of the
term "Toleration"—Slander and False Witness—Nobody can Control his own
Mind: Anecdote—Remarks of Mr. Coudert—Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, and
Ingersoll—General Woodford's Speech—Reply by Colonel Ingersoll—A
Catholic Compelled to Pay a Compliment to Voltaire—Responsibility for
Thoughts—The Mexican Unbeliever and his Reception in the Other Country.
(1891.)
Christianity's Message of Grief—Christmas a Pagan Festival—Reply
to Dr. Buckley—Charges by the Editor of the Christian Advocate—The
Tidings of Christianity—In what the Message of Grief Consists—Fear
and Flame—An Everlasting Siberia—Dr. Buckley's Proposal to Boycott the
Telegram—Reply to Rev. J. M. King and Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. Cana Day
be Blasphemed?—Hurting Christian feelings—For Revenue only What is
Blasphemy?—Balaam's Ass wiser than the Prophet—The Universalists—Can
God do Nothing for this World?—The Universe a Blunder if Christianity
is true—The Duty of a Newspaper—Facts Not Sectarian—The Rev.
Mr. Peters—What Infidelity Has Done—Public School System not
Christian—Orthodox Universities—Bruno on Oxford—As to Public
Morals—No Rewards or Punishments in the Universe—The Atonement
Immoral—As to Sciences and Art—Bruno, Humboldt, Darwin—Scientific
Writers Opposed by the Church—As to the Liberation of Slaves—As to
the Reclamation of Inebriates—Rum and Religion—The Humanity
of Infidelity—What Infidelity says to the Dying—The Battle
Continued—Morality not Assailed by an Attack on Christianity—The
Inquisition and Religious Persecution—Human Nature Derided by
Christianity—Dr. DaCosta—"Human Brotherhood" as exemplified by
the History of the Church—The Church and Science, Art and
Learning——Astronomy's Revenge—Galileo and Kepler—Mrs. Browning:
Science Thrust into the Brain of Europe—Our Numerals—Christianity and
Literature—Institution's of Learning—Stephen Girard—James Lick—Our
Chronology—Historians—Natural Philosophy—Philology—Metaphysical
Research—Intelligence, Hindoo, Egyptian—Inventions—John
Ericsson—Emancipators—Rev. Mr. Ballou—The Right of Goa to
Punish—Rev. Dr. Hillier—Rev. Mr. Haldeman—George A. Locey—The "Great
Physician"—Rev. Mr. Talmage—Rev. J. Benson Hamilton—How Voltaire
Died—The Death-bed of Thomas Paine—Rev. Mr. Holloway—Original
Sin—Rev. Dr. Tyler—The Good Samaritan a Heathen—Hospitals and
Asylums—Christian Treatment of the Insane—Rev. Dr. Buckley—The
North American Review Discussion—Judge Black, Dr. Field,
Mr. Gladstone—Circulation of Obscene Literature—Eulogy of
Whiskey—Eulogy of Tobacco—Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods—Rev.
Charles Deems—Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil—The Man Christ.
(1892.)
Reply to the Western Watchman—Henry D'Arcy—Peter's
Prevarication-Some Excellent Pagans-Heartlessness of a
Catholic—Wishes do not Affect the Judgment—Devout Robbers—Penitent
Murderers—Reverential Drunkards—Luther's Distich—Judge
Normile—Self-destruction.
(1894.)
Col. Ingersoll's First Letter in The New York World—Under what
Circumstances a Man has the Right to take his Own Life—Medicine and the
Decrees of God—Case of the Betrayed Girl—Suicides not Cowards—Suicide
under Roman Law—Many Suicides Insane—Insanity Caused by Religion—The
Law against Suicide Cruel and Idiotic—Natural and Sufficient Cause for
Self-destruction—Christ's Death a Suicide—Col. Ingersoll's Reply to his
Critics—Is Suffering the Work of God?—It is not Man's Duty to
Endure Hopeless Suffering—When Suicide is Justifiable—The
Inquisition—Alleged Cowardice of Suicides—Propositions
Demonstrated—Suicide the Foundation of the Christian
Religion—Redemption and Atonement—The Clergy on Infidelity
and Suicide—Morality and Unbelief—Better injure yourself than
Another—Misquotation by Opponents—Cheerful View the Best—The
Wonder is that Men endure—Suicide a Sin (Interview in The New
York Journal)—Causes of Suicide—Col. Ingersoll Does Not Advise
Suicide—Suicides with Tracts or Bibles in their Pockets—Suicide a Sin
(Interview in The New York Herald)—Comments on Rev. Alerle St. Croix
Wright's Sermon—Suicide and Sanity (Interview in The York World)—As to
the Cowardice of Suicide—Germany and the Prevalence of Suicide—Killing
of Idiots and Defective Infants—Virtue, Morality, and Religion.
(1891.)
Reply to General Rush Hawkins' Article, "Brutality and Avarice
Triumphant"—Croakers and Prophets of Evil—Medical Treatment
for Believers in Universal Evil—Alleged Fraud in Army
Contracts—Congressional Extravagance—Railroad "Wreckers"—How
Stockholders in Some Roads Lost Their Money—The Star-Route
Trials—Timber and Public Lands—Watering Stock—The Formation
of Trusts—Unsafe Hotels: European Game and Singing Birds—Seal
Fisheries—Cruelty to Animals—Our Indians—Sensible and Manly
Patriotism—Days of Brutality—Defence of Slavery by the Websters,
Bentons, and Clays—Thirty Years' Accomplishment—Ennobling Influence of
War for the Right—The Lady ana the Brakeman—American Esteem of Honesty
in Business—Republics do not Tend to Official Corruption—This the Best
Country in the World.
A REPLY TO THE CINCINNATI GAZETTE AND CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.
(1878.)
Defence of the Lecture on Moses—How Biblical Miracles are sought to
be Proved—Some Non Sequiturs—A Grammatical Criticism—Christianity
Destructive of Manners—Cuvier and Agassiz on Mosaic Cosmogony—Clerical
Advance agents—Christian Threats and Warnings—Catholicism the Upas
Tree—Hebrew Scholarship as a Qualification for Deciding Probababilities
—Contradictions and Mistranslations of the Bible—Number of Errors in
the Scriptures—The Sunday Question.
AN INTERVIEW ON CHIEF JUSTICE COMEGYS.
(1881.)
Charged with Blasphemy in the State of Delaware—Can a Conditionless
Deity be Injured?—Injustice the only Blasphemy—The Lecture
in Delaware—Laws of that State—All Sects in turn Charged with
Blasphemy—Heresy Consists in making God Better than he is Thought
to Be—A Fatal Biblical Passage—Judge Comegys—Wilmington
Preachers—States with Laws against Blasphemy—No Danger of Infidel
Mobs—No Attack on the State of Delaware Contemplated—Comegys a
Resurrection—Grand Jury's Refusal to Indict—Advice about the Cutting
out of Heretics' Tongues—Objections to the Whipping-post—Mr. Bergh's
Bill—One Remedy for Wife-beating.
A REPLY TO REV. DRS. THOMAS AND LORIMER.
(1882.)
Solemnity—Charged with Being Insincere—Irreverence—Old Testament
Better than the New—"Why Hurt our Feelings?"—Involuntary Action of
the Brain—Source of our Conceptions of Space—Good and Bad—Right and
Wrong—The Minister, the Horse and the Lord's Prayer—Men Responsible
for their Actions—The "Gradual" Theory Not Applicable to
the Omniscient—Prayer Powerless to Alter Results—Religious
Persecution—Orthodox Ministers Made Ashamed of their
Creed—Purgatory—Infidelity and Baptism Contrasted—Modern Conception
of the Universe—The Golden Bridge of Life—"The Only Salutation"—The
Test for Admission to Heaven—"Scurrility."
A REPLY TO REV. JOHN HALL AND WARNER VAN NORDEN.
(1892.)
Dr. Hall has no Time to Discuss the subject of Starving
Workers—Cloakmakers' Strike—Warner Van Norden of the Church Extension
Society—The Uncharitableness of Organized Charity—Defence of the
Cloakmakers—Life of the Underpaid—On the Assertion that Assistance
encourages Idleness and Crime—The Man without Pity an Intellectual
Beast—Tendency of Prosperity to Breed Selfishness—Thousands Idle
without Fault—Egotism of Riches—Van Norden's Idea of Happiness—The
Worthy Poor.
A REPLY TO THE REV. DR. PLUMB.
(1898.)
Interview in a Boston Paper—Why should a Minister call this a "Poor"
World?—Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?—Gospel
Gossip—Christ's Sayings Repetitions—The Philosophy of Confucius—Rev.
Mr. Mills—The Charge of "Robbery"—The Divine Plan.
A REPLY TO THE NEW YORK CLERGY ON SUPERSTITION.
(1898.)
Interview in the New York Journal—Rev. Roberts. MacArthur—A
Personal Devil—Devils who held Conversations with Christ not simply
personifications of Evil—The Temptation—The "Man of Straw"—Christ's
Mission authenticated by the Casting Out of Devils—Spain—God
Responsible for the Actions of Man—Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Parks—Rev. Dr. E.
F. Moldehnke—Patience amidst the Misfortunes of Others—Yellow Fever
as a Divine Agent—The Doctrine that All is for the Best—Rev. Mr.
Hamlin—Why Did God Create a Successful Rival?—A Compliment by the
Rev. Mr. Belcher—Rev. W. C. Buchanan—No Argument Old until it is
Answered—Why should God Create sentient Beings to be Damned?—Rev. J.
W. Campbell—Rev. Henry Frank—Rev. E. C.J. Kraeling on Christ and the
Devil—Would he make a World like This?
EUROPEAN TRIP AND GREENBACK QUESTION
THE PRE-MILLENNIAL CONFERENCE.
THE SOLID SOUTH AND RESUMPTION.
THE SUNDAY LAWS OF PITTSBURG.*
POLITICS, RELIGION AND THOMAS PAINE.
MR. BEECHER, MOSES AND THE NEGRO.
HADES, DELAWARE AND FREETHOUGHT.
A REPLY TO THE REV. MR. LANSING.*
BEACONSFIELD, LENT AND REVIVALS.
ANSWERING THE NEW YORK MINISTERS.*
FUNERAL OF JOHN G. MILLS AND IMMORTALITY.*
THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT IN OHIO.
JUSTICE HARLAN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
POLITICS, MORMONISM AND MR. BEECHER
WENDELL PHILLIPS, FITZ JOHN PORTER AND BISMARCK.
POLITICS AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
RELIGION, PROHIBITION, AND GEN. GRANT.
HELL OR SHEOL AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
INTERVIEWING, POLITICS AND SPIRITUALISM.
REPLY TO THE REV. B. F. MORSE.*
TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM OF 1888.
SUMMER RECREATION—MR. GLADSTONE.
PROTECTION FOR AMERICAN ACTORS.
THE SACREDNESS OF THE SABBATH.
THE WESTMINSTER CREED AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY, AND PRESBYTERIANISM.
THE TENDENCY OF MODERN THOUGHT.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE, HORSE RACING, AND MONEY.
WORD PAINTING AND COLLEGE EDUCATION.
PERSONAL MAGNETISM AND THE SUNDAY QUESTION.
MIRACLES, THEOSOPHY AND SPIRITUALISM.
STRIKES, EXPANSION AND OTHER SUBJECTS.
CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. THE POPE, THE A. P. A., AGNOSTICISM
SENATOR SHERMAN AND HIS BOOK.*
REPLY TO THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING—CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND POLITICS.
MUSIC, NEWSPAPERS, LYNCHING AND ARBITRATION.
THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY DISCUSSION AND THE WHIPPING-POST.
COLONEL SHEPARD'S STAGE HORSES.*
A REPLY TO THE REV. L. A. BANKS.
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG AND EXPANSION.
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND THE BIBLE.*
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WHIPPING-POST.
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.
AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.
COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.
ADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.
THE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH.
AN ADDRESS TO THE COLORED PEOPLE.
(1867.)
Slavery and its Justification by Law and Religion—Its Destructive
Influence upon Nations—Inauguration of the Modern Slave Trade by the
Portuguese Gonzales—Planted upon American Soil—The Abolitionists,
Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Others—The Struggle in England—Pioneers
in San Domingo, Oge and Chevannes—Early Op-posers of Slavery in
America—William Lloyd Garrison—Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, John
Brown—The Fugitive Slave Law—The Emancipation Proclamation—Dread of
Education in the South—Advice to the Colored People.
(1868.)
Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus—Precedent Established by the
Revolutionary Fathers—Committees of Safety appointed by the
Continental Congress—Arrest of Disaffected Persons in Pennsylvania
and Delaware—Interference with Elections—Resolution of Continental
Congress with respect to Citizens who Opposed the sending of Deputies
to the Convention of New York—Penalty for refusing to take Continental
Money or Pray for the American Cause—Habeas Corpus Suspended during the
Revolution—Interference with Freedom of the Press—Negroes Freed and
allowed to Fight in the Continental Army—Crispus Attacks—An Abolition
Document issued by Andrew Jackson—Majority rule—Slavery and the
Rebellion—Tribute to General Grant.
SPEECH NOMINATING BLAINE.
(1876.)
Note descriptive of the Occasion—Demand of the Republicans of the
United States—Resumption—The Plumed Knight.
(1876.)
One Hundred Years ago, our Fathers retired the Gods from Politics—The
Declaration of Independence—Meaning of the Declaration—The Old Idea
of the Source of Political Power—Our Fathers Educated by their
Surroundings—The Puritans—Universal Religious Toleration declared by
the Catholics of Maryland—Roger Williams—Not All of our Fathers in
favor of Independence—Fortunate Difference in Religious Views—Secular
Government—Authority derived from the People—The Declaration and
the Beginning of the War—What they Fought For—Slavery—Results of
a Hundred Years of Freedom—The Declaration Carried out in Letter and
Spirit.
(1876.)
The Hayes Campaign—Reasons for Voting the Republican Ticket—Abolition
of Slavery—Preservation of the Union—Reasons for Not Trusting the
Democratic Party—Record of the Republican Party—Democrats Assisted
the South—Paper Money—Enfranchisement of the Negroes—Samuel J.
Tilden—His Essay on Finance.
COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.
COOPER UNION SPEECH, NEW YORK.
(1876.)
All Citizens Stockholders in the United States of America—The
Democratic Party a Hungry Organization—Political Parties
Contrasted—The Fugitive Slave Law a Disgrace to Hell in its Palmiest
Days—Feelings of the Democracy Hurt on the Subject of Religion—Defence
of Slavery in a Resolution of the Presbyterians, South—State of the
Union at the Time the Republican Party was Born—Jacob Thompson—The
National Debt—Protection of Citizens Abroad—Tammany Hall: Its Relation
to the Penitentiary—The Democratic Party of New York City—"What
Hands!"—Free Schools.
(1876.)
Address to the Veteran Soldiers of the Rebellion—Objections to
the Democratic Party—The Men who have been Democrats—Why I am a
Republican—Free Labor and Free Thought—A Vision of War—Democratic
Slander of the Greenback—Shall the People who Saved the Country Rule
It?—On Finance—Government Cannot Create Money—The Greenback Dollar
a Mortgage upon the Country—Guarantees that the Debt will be Paid-'The
Thoroughbred and the Mule—The Column of July, Paris—The Misleading
Guide Board, the Dismantled Mill, and the Place where there had been a
Hotel,
(1876.)
The Plea of "Let Bygones be Bygones"—Passport of the Democratic
Party—Right of the General Government to send Troops into Southern
States for the Protection of Colored People—Abram S. Hewitt's
Congratulatory Letter to the Negroes—The Demand for Inflation of the
Currency—Record of Rutherford B. Hayes—Contrasted with Samuel J.
Tilden—Merits of the Republican Party—Negro and Southern White—The
Superior Man—"No Nation founded upon Injustice can Permanently Stand."
(1877.)
On the Electoral Commission—Reminiscences of the Hayes-Tilden Camp—
Constitution of the Electoral College—Characteristics of the Members—
Frauds at the Ballot Box Poisoning the Fountain of Power—Reforms
Suggested—Elections too Frequent—The Professional Office-seeker—A
Letter on Civil Service Reform—Young Men Advised against Government
Clerkships—Too Many Legislators and too Much Legislation—Defect in the
Constitution as to the Mode of Electing a President—Protection of
Citizens by State and General Governments—The Dual Government in South
Carolina—Ex-Rebel Key in the President's Cabinet—Implacables and
Bourbons South and North—"I extend to you each and all the Olive Branch
of Peace."
(1878.)
Capital and Labor—What is a Capitalist?—The Idle and the Industrious
Artisans—No Conflict between Capital and Labor—A Period of Inflation
and Speculation—Life and Fire Insurance Agents—Business done on
Credit—The Crash, Failure, and Bankruptcy—Fall in the Price of Real
Estate a Form of Resumption—Coming back to Reality—Definitions of
Money Examined—Not Gold and Silver but Intelligent Labor the Measure
of Value—Government cannot by Law Create Wealth—A Bill of Fare not
a Dinner—Fiat Money—American Honor Pledged to the Maintenance of the
Greenbacks—The Cry against Holders of Bonds—Criminals and Vagabonds to
be supported—Duty of Government to Facilitate Enterprise—More Men must
Cultivate the Soil—Government Aid for the Overcoming of Obstacles too
Great for Individual Enterprise—The Palace Builders the Friends of
Labor—Extravagance the best Form of Charity—Useless to Boost a Man
who is not Climbing—The Reasonable Price for Labor—The Vagrant and his
strange and winding Path—What to tell the Working Men.
(1880.)
The Right to Vote—All Women who desire the Suffrage should have
It—Shall the People of the District of Columbia Manage their Own
Affairs—Their Right to a Representative in Congress and an Electoral
Vote—Anomalous State of Affairs at the Capital of the Republic—Not the
Wealthy and Educated alone should Govern—The Poor as Trustworthy as the
Rich—Strict Registration Laws Needed.
(1880.)
Obligation of New York to Protect the Best Interests of the
Country—Treason and Forgery of the Democratic Party in its Appeal to
Sword and Pen—The One Republican in the Penitentiary of Maine—The
Doctrine of State Sovereignty—Protection for American Brain and
Muscle—Hancock on the Tariff—A Forgery (the Morey letter) Committed
and upheld—The Character of James A. Garfield.
(1880.)
Introduced by Henry Ward Beecher (note)—Some Patriotic
Democrats—Freedom of Speech North and South—An Honest Ballot—
ADDRESS TO THE 86TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT.
THE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK GOLD SPEECH.
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME X.
ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL.
CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
OPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
CLOSING ADDRESS IN SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL
ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.
ARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.
ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE MUNN TRIAL.
Demoralization caused by Alcohol—Note from the Chicago
Times—Prejudice—Review of the Testimony of Jacob Rehm—Perjury
Characterized—The Defendant and the Offence Charged (p. 21)—Testimony
of Golsen Reviewed—Rehm's Testimony before the Grand Jury—Good
Character (p. 29)—Suspicion not Evidence.
CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE FIRST STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
Note from the Washington Capital—The Assertion Denied that we are
a Demoralized Country and that our Country is Distinguished among
the Nations only for Corruption—Duties of Jurors and Duties of
Lawyers—Section under which the Indictment is Found—Cases cited to
Show that Overt Acts charged and also the Crime itself must be Proved
as Described—Routes upon which Indictments are Based and Overt Acts
Charged (pp. 54-76)—Routes on which the Making of False Claims is
Alleged—Authorities on Proofs of Conspiracy (pp. 91-94)—Examination
of the Evidence against Stephen W. and John W. Dorsey (pp. 96-117)—The
Corpus Delicti in a Case of Conspiracy and the Acts Necessary to be Done
in Order to Establish Conspiracy (pp. 120-123)—Testimony of Walsh
and the Confession of Rerdell—Extravagance in Mail Carrying (p.
128)—Productiveness of Mail Routes (p. 131)—Hypothesis of Guilt and
Law of Evidence—Dangerous Influence of Suspicion—Terrorizing the
Jury—The Woman at Her Husband's Side.
OPENING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
Juries the Bulwark of Civil Liberty—Suspicion Not Evidence—Brief
Statement of the Case—John M. Peck, John W. Dorsey, Stephen W. Dorsey,
John R. Miner, Mr. (A. E. ) Boone (p.p. 150-156)—The Clendenning
Bonds—Miner's, Peck's, and Dorsey's Bids—Why they Bid on Cheap
Routes—Number of Routes upon which there are Indictments—The
Arrangement between Stephen W. Dorsey and John R. Miner—Appearance
of Mr. Vaile in the Contracts—Partnership Formed—The Routes
Divided—Senator Dorsey's Course after Getting the Routes—His Routes
turned over to James W. Bosler—Profits of the Business (p. 181)—The
Petitions for More Mails—Productive and Unproductive Post-offices—Men
who Add to the Wealth of the World—Where the Idea of the Productiveness
of Post routes was Hatched—Cost of Letters to Recipients in 1843—The
Overland Mail (p. 190)—Loss in Distributing the Mail in the District
of Columbia and Other Territories—Post-office the only Evidence
of National Beneficence—Profit and Loss of Mail Carrying—Orders
Antedated, and Why—Routes Increased and Expedited—Additional Bonds for
Additional Trips—The Charge that Pay was Received when the Mail was
not Carried—Fining on Shares—Subcontracts for Less than the Original
Contracts—Pay on Discontinued Routes—Alleged False Affidavits—Right
of Petition—Reviewing the Ground.
CLOSING ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE SECOND STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
Scheme of the Indictment—Story of the Case—What Constitutes Fraudulent
Bidding—How a Conspiracy Must be Proved—The Hypothesis of Guilt and
Law of Evidence—Conversation Unsatisfactory Evidence—Fallibility of
Memory—Proposition to Produce Mr. Dorsey's Books—Interruption of the
Court to Decide that Primary Evidence, having Once been Refused, can not
afterwards be Introduced to Contradict Secondary Evidence—A Defendant
may not be Presumed into the Penitentiary—A Decision by Justice
Field—The Right of Petition—Was there a Conspiracy?—Dorsey's
Benevolence (p. 250)—The Chico Springs Letter—Evidence of Moore
Reviewed—Mr. Ker's Defective Memory—The Informer System—Testimony
of Rerdell Reviewed—His Letter to Dorsey (p. 304)—The Affidavit of
Rerdell and Dorsey—Petitions for Faster Time—Uncertainty Regarding
Handwriting—Government Should be Incapable of Deceit—Rerdell's
withdrawal of the Plea of Not Guilty (p. 362)—Informers, their Immunity
and Evidence—Nailing Down the Lid of Rerdell's Coffin—Mistakes of
Messrs. Ker and Merrick and the Court—Letter of H. M. Vaile to the
Sixth Auditor—Miner's Letter to Carey—Miner, Peck & Co. to Frank A.
Tuttle—Answering Points Raised by Mr. Bliss (396 et seq.)—Evidence
regarding the Payment of Money by Dorsey to Brady—A. E. Boone's
Testimony Reviewed—Secrecy of Contractors Regarding the Amount of their
Bids—Boone's Partnership Agreement with Dorsey—Explanation of Bids
in Different Names—Omission of Instructions from Proposals (p.
450)—Accusation that Senator Mitchell was the Paid Agent of
the Defendants—Alleged Sneers at Things held Sacred—What is a
Conspiracy?—The Theory that there was a Conspiracy—Dorsey's Alleged
Interest—The Two Affidavits in Evidence—Inquiry of General Miles—Why
the Defendant's Books were not Produced—Tames W. Bosler's Testimony
Read (p. 500)—The Court shown to be Mistaken Regarding a Decision
Previously Made (pp. 496-502)—No Logic in Abuse—Charges against John
W. Miner—Testimony of A. W. Moore Reviewed-The Verdict Predicted—The
Defendants in the Case—What is left for the Jury to Say—Remarks of
Messrs. Henkle and Davidge—The Verdict.
ADDRESS TO THE JURY IN THE DAVIS WILL CASE.
Note from the Anaconda Standard—Senator Sander's Warning to the Jury
Not to be Enticed by Sinners—Evidence, based on Quality of Handwriting,
that Davis did not Write the Will—Evidence of the Spelling—Assertion
that the Will was Forged—Peculiarities of Eddy's Handwriting—Holes
in Sconce's Signature and Reputation—His Memory—Business Sagacity
of Davis—His Alleged Children—Date of his Death—Testimony of Mr.
Knight—Ink used in Writing the Will—Expert Evidence—Speechlessness
of John A. Davis—Eddy's Failure to take the Stand—Testimony of
Carruthers—Relatives of Sconce—Mary Ann Davis's Connections—The
Family Tree—The Signature of the Will—What the Evidence Shows—Duty
and Opportunity of the Jury.
ARGUMENT BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR IN THE RUSSELL CASE.
Antenuptial Waiving of Dower by Women—A Case from Illinois—At What
Age Men and Women Cease to Feel the Tender Flame—Russell's Bargain with
Mrs. Russell—Antenuptial Contract and Parole Agreement—Definition
of "Liberal Provision "—The Woman not Bound by a Contract Made in
Ignorance of the Facts—Contract Destroyed by Deception.
DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME XI.
ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
TRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY.
THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.
TOLSTOÏ AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA."
SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
CRITICISM OF "ROBERT ELSMERE," "JOHN WARD, PREACHER," AND "AN AFRICAN FARM."
REV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION.
HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM.
CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY.
SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
GOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION.
A LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY.
A FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE.
ADDRESS ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
Introduction by Frederick Douglass("Abou Ben Adhem")—Decision of
the United States Supreme Court pronouncing the Civil Rights Act
Unconstitutional—Limitations of Judges—Illusion Destroyed by the
Decision in the Dred Scott Case—Mistake of Our Fathers in adopting
the Common Law of England—The 13th Amendment to the Constitution
Quoted—The Clause of the Constitution upholding Slavery—Effect of
this Clause—Definitions of a State by Justice Wilson and Chief Justice
Chase—Effect of the Thirteenth Amendment—Justice Field on Involuntary
Servitude—Civil Rights Act Quoted—Definition of the Word Servitude by
the Supreme Court—Obvious Purpose of the Amendment—Justice Miller
on the 14th Amendment—Citizens Created by this Amendment—Opinion
of Justice Field—Rights and Immunities guaranteed by the
Constitution—Opinion delivered by Chief-Justice Waite—Further Opinions
of Courts on the question of Citizenship—Effect of the 13th, 14th and
15th Amendments—"Corrective" Legislation by Congress—Denial of equal
"Social" Privileges—Is a State responsible for the Action of its Agent
when acting contrary to Law?—The Word "State" must include the People
of the State as well as the Officers of the State—The Louisiana Civil
Rights Law, and a Case tried under it—Uniformity of Duties essential to
the Carrier—Congress left Powerless to protect Rights conferred by the
Constitution—Definition of "Appropriate Legislation"—Propositions laid
down regarding the Sovereignty of the State, the powers of the General
Government, etc.—A Tribute to Justice Harlan—A Denial that Property
exists by Virtue of Law—Civil Rights not a Question of Social
Equality—Considerations upon which Social Equality depends—Liberty not
a Question of Social Equality—The Superior Man—Inconsistencies of the
Past—No Reason why we should Hate the Colored People—The Issues that
are upon Us.
TRIAL OF C. B. REYNOLDS FOR BLASPHEMY.
ADDRESS TO THE JURY.
Report of the Case from the New York Times (note)—The Right to express
Opinions—Attempts to Rule the Minds of Men by Force—Liberty the
Greatest Good—Intellectual Hospitality Defined—When the Catholic
Church had Power—Advent of the Protestants—The Puritans, Quakers.
Unitarians, Universalists—What is Blasphemy?—Why this Trial should not
have Taken Place—Argument cannot be put in Jail—The Constitution of
New Jersey—A higher Law than Men can Make—The Blasphemy Statute
Quoted and Discussed—Is the Statute Constitutional?—The Harm done
by Blasphemy Laws—The Meaning of this Persecution—Religions are
Ephemeral—Let us judge each other by our Actions—Men who have braved
Public Opinion should be Honored—The Blasphemy Law if enforced would
rob the World of the Results of Scientific Research—It declares the
Great Men of to-day to be Criminals—The Indictment Read and Commented
upon—Laws that go to Sleep—Obsolete Dogmas the Denial of which was
once punished by Death—Blasphemy Characterized—On the Argument
that Blasphemy Endangers the Public Peace—A Definition of real
Blasphemy—Trials for Blasphemy in England—The case of Abner
Kneeland—True Worship, Prayer, and Religion—What is Holy and
Sacred—What is Claimed in this Case—For the Honor of the State—The
word Liberty—Result of the Trial (note).
The Feudal System—Office and Purpose of our Constitution—Which God
shall we Select?—The Existence of any God a Matter of Opinion—What is
entailed by a Recognition of a God in the Constitution—Can the Infinite
be Flattered with a Constitutional Amendment?—This government is
Secular—The Government of God a Failure—The Difference between the
Theological and the Secular Spirit—A Nation neither Christian nor
Infidel—The Priest no longer a Necessity—Progress of Science and the
Development of the Mind.
On God in the Constitution—Why the Constitutional Convention ignored
the Question of Religion—The Fathers Misrepresented—Reasons why the
Attributes of God should not form an Organic Part of the Law of the
Land—The Effect of a Clause Recognizing God.
The Three Pests of a Community—I. Forms of Punishment and Torture—More
Crimes Committed than Prevented by Governments—II. Are not Vices
transmitted by Nature?—111. Is it Possible for all People to be
Honest?—Children of Vice as the natural Product of Society—Statistics:
the Relation between Insanity, Pauperism, and Crime—IV. The Martyrs of
Vice—Franklin's Interest in the Treatment of Prisoners—V. Kindness
as a Remedy—Condition of the Discharged Prisoner—VI. Compensation
for Convicts—VII. Professional Criminals—Shall the Nation take
Life?—Influence of Public Executions on the Spectators—Lynchers
for the Most Part Criminals at Heart—VIII. The Poverty of the Many a
perpetual Menace—Limitations of Land-holding.—IX. Defective Education
by our Schools—Hands should be educated as well as Head—Conduct
improved by a clearer Perception of Consequences—X. The Discipline of
the average Prison Hardening and Degrading—While Society cringes before
Great Thieves there will be Little Ones to fill the Jails—XI. Our
Ignorance Should make us Hesitate.
On Christian and Chinese worship—Report of the Select Committee
on Chinese Immigration—The only true God as contrasted with
Joss—Sacrifices to the "Living God"—Messrs. Wright, Dickey, O'Connor
and Murch on the "Religious System" of the American Union—How to prove
that Christians are better than Heathens—Injustice in the Name of
God—An honest Merchant the best Missionary—A Few Extracts from
Confucius—The Report proves that the Wise Men of China who predicted
that Christians could not be Trusted were not only Philosophers but
Prophets.
A New Party and its Purpose—The Classes that Exist in every
Country—Effect of Education on the Common People—Wants Increased by
Intelligence—The Dream of 1776—The Monopolist and the Competitor—The
War between the Gould and Mackay Cables—Competition between
Monopolies—All Advance in Legislation made by Repealing Laws—Wages
and Values not to be fixed by Law—Men and Machines—The Specific of
the Capitalist: Economy—The poor Man and Woman devoured by
their Fellow-men—Socialism one of the Worst Possible forms of
Slavery—Liberty not to be exchanged for Comfort—Will the Workers
always give their Earnings for the Useless?—Priests, Successful Frauds,
and Robed Impostors.
The Origin of Man's Thoughts—The imaginative Man—"Medicinal View" of
Poetry—Rhyme and Religion—The theological Poets and their Purpose in
Writing—Moral Poets and their "Unwelcome Truths"—The really Passionate
are the Virtuous—Difference between the Nude and the Naked—Morality
the Melody of Conduct—The inculcation of Moral Lessons not contemplated
by Artists or great Novelists—Mistaken Reformers—Art not a
Sermon—Language a Multitude of Pictures—Great Pictures and Great
Statues painted and chiseled with Words—Mediocrity moral from a
Necessity which it calls Virtue—Why Art Civilizes—The Nude—The Venus
de Milo—This is Art.
THE DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH.
The Way in which Theological Seminaries were Endowed—Religious
Guide-boards—Vast Interests interwoven with Creeds—Pretensions of
Christianity—Kepler's Discovery of his Three Great Laws—Equivocations
and Evasions of the Church—Nature's Testimony against the
Bible—The Age of Man on the Earth—"Inspired" Morality of the
Bible—Miracles—Christian Dogmas—What the church has been Compelled to
Abandon—The Appeal to Epithets, Hatred and Punishment—"Spirituality"
the last Resource of the Orthodox—What is it to be Spiritual?—Two
Questions for the Defenders of Orthodox Creeds.
Part I. Inharmony of Nature and the Lot of Man with the Goodness and
Wisdom of a supposed Deity—Why a Creator is Imagined—Difficulty of the
Act of Creation—Belief in Supernatural Beings—Belief and Worship among
Savages—Questions of Origin and Destiny—Progress impossible without
Change of Belief—Circumstances Determining Belief—How may the
True Religion be Ascertained?—Prosperity of Nations nor Virtue
of Individuals Dependent on Religions or Gods—Uninspired Books
Superior—Part II. The Christian Religion—Credulity—Miracles cannot
be Established—Effect of Testimony—Miraculous Qualities of all
Religions—Theists and Naturalists—The Miracle of Inspiration—How
can the alleged Fact of Inspiration be Established?—God's work and
Man's—Rewards for Falsehood offered by the Church.
Statement by the Principal of King's College—On the Irrelevancy of a
Lack of Scientific Knowledge—Difference between the Agnostic and
the Christian not in Knowledge but in Credulity—The real name of
an Agnostic said to be "Infidel"—What an Infidel is—"Unpleasant"
significance of the Word—Belief in Christ—"Our Lord and his Apostles"
possibly Honest Men—Their Character not Invoked—Possession by evil
spirits—Professor Huxley's Candor and Clearness—The splendid Dream
of Auguste Comte—Statement of the Positive Philosophy—Huxley and
Harrison.
His Rearing and his Anticipated Biography—The complex Character of the
Christ of the Gospels—Regarded as a Man by Renan—The Sin against the
Holy Ghost—Renan on the Gospels—No Evidence that they were written
by the Men whose Names they Bear—Written long after the Events they
Describe—Metaphysics of the Church found in the Gospel of John—Not
Apparent why Four Gospels should have been Written—Regarded as
legendary Biographies—In "flagrant contradiction one with another"—The
Divine Origin of Christ an After-growth—Improbable that he intended to
form a Church—Renan's Limitations—Hebrew Scholarship—His "People of
Israel"—His Banter and Blasphemy.
TOLSTOY AND "THE KREUTZER SONATA."
Tolstoy's Belief and Philosophy—His Asceticism—His View of Human
Love—Purpose of "The Kreutzer Sonata"—Profound Difference between the
Love of Men and that of Women—Tolstoy cannot now found a Religion, but
may create the Necessity for another Asylum—The Emotions—The Curious
Opinion Dried Apples have of Fruit upon the Tree—Impracticability of
selling All and giving to the Poor—Love and Obedience—Unhappiness in
the Marriage Relation not the fault of Marriage.
Life by Moncure D. Conway—Early Advocacy of Reforms against Dueling
and Cruelty to Animals—The First to write "The United States of
America"—Washington's Sentiment against Separation from Great
Britain—Paine's Thoughts in the Declaration of Independence—Author of
the first Proclamation of Emancipation in America—Establishment of a
Fund for the Relief of the Army—H's "Farewell Address"—The "Rights of
Man"—Elected to the French Convention—Efforts to save the Life of the
King—His Thoughts on Religion—Arrested—The "Age of Reason" and the
Weapons it has furnished "Advanced Theologians"—Neglect by Gouverneur
Morris and Washington—James Monroe's letter to Paine and to the
Committee of General Safety—The vaunted Religious Liberty of
Colonial Maryland—Orthodox Christianity at the Beginning of the 19th
Century—New Definitions of God—The Funeral of Paine.
I. Mr. A., the Professional Philanthropist, who established a Colony
for the Enslavement of the Poor who could not take care of themselves,
amassed a large Fortune thereby, built several churches, and earned
the Epitaph, "He was the Providence of the Poor"—II. Mr. B.,
the Manufacturer, who enriched himself by taking advantage of the
Necessities of the Poor, paid the lowest Rate of Wages, considered
himself one of God's Stewards, endowed the "B Asylum" and the "B
College," never lost a Dollar, and of whom it was recorded, "He Lived
for Others." III. Mr. C., who divided his Profits with the People who had
earned it, established no Public Institutions, suppressed Nobody; and
those who have worked for him said, "He allowed Others to live for
Themselves."
SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
Trampling on the Rights of Inferiors—Rise of the Irish and Germans
to Power—The Burlingame Treaty—Character of Chinese Laborers—Their
Enemies in the Pacific States—Violation of Treaties—The Geary Law—The
Chinese Hated for their Virtues—More Piety than Principle among the
People's Representatives—Shall we go back to Barbarism?
What the Educated Man Knows—Necessity of finding out the Facts
of Nature—"Scholars" not always Educated Men; from necessaries to
luxuries; who may be called educated; mental misers; the first duty of
man; university education not necessary to usefulness, no advantage in
learning useless facts.
Would have the Kings and Emperors resign, the Nobility drop their
Titles, the Professors agree to teach only What they Know, the
Politicians changed to Statesmen, the Editors print only the
Truth—Would like to see Drunkenness and Prohibition abolished,
Corporal Punishment done away with, and the whole World free.
The Fool Friend believes every Story against you, never denies a Lie
unless it is in your Favor, regards your Reputation as Common Prey,
forgets his Principles to gratify your Enemies, and is so friendly that
you cannot Kick him.
Nature tells a different Story to all Eyes and Ears—Horace Greeley and
the Big Trees—The Man who "always did like rolling land"—What the
Snow looked like to the German—Shakespeare's different Story for each
Reader—As with Nature so with the Bible.
People who live by Lying—A Case in point—H. Hodson Rugg's Account of
the Conversion of Ingersoll and 5,000 of his Followers—The "Identity of
Lost Israel with the British Nation"—Old Falsehoods about Infidels—The
New York Observer and Thomas Paine—A Rascally English Editor—The
Charge that Ingersoll's Son had been Converted—The Fecundity of
Falsehood.
The Editor should not narrow his Horizon so that he can see only
One Thing—To know the Defects of the Bible is but the Beginning of
Wisdom—The Liberal Paper should not discuss Theological Questions
Alone—A Column for Children—Candor and Kindness—Nothing should be
Asserted that is not Known—Above All, teach the Absolute Freedom of the
Mind.
The religion of Humanity; what it Embraces and what it Advocates—A
Protest against Ecclesiastical Tyranny—Believes in Building a Home
here—Means Food and Fireside—The Right to express your Thought—Its
advice to every Human Being—A Religion without Mysteries, Miracles, or
Persecutions.
CRITICISM OF "ROBERT ELSMERE," "JOHN WARD, PREACHER," AND "AN AFRICAN FARM."
Religion unsoftened by Infidelity—The Orthodox Minister whose Wife has
a Heart—Honesty of Opinion not a Mitigating Circumstance—Repulsiveness
of an Orthodox Life—John Ward an Object of Pity—Lyndall of the
"African Farm"—The Story of the Hunter—Death of Waldo—Women the
Caryatides of the Church—Attitude of Christianity toward other
Religions—Egotism of the ancient Jews.
All Articles appearing in a newspaper should be Signed by the
Writer—The Law if changed should throw greater Safeguards around the
Reputation of the Citizen—Pains should be taken to give Prominence to
Retractions—The Libel Laws like a Bayonet in War.
REV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION.
REV. DR. NEWTON'S SERMON ON A NEW RELIGION.
Mr. Newton not Regarded as a Sceptic—New Meanings given to Old
Words—The vanishing Picture of Hell—The Atonement—Confidence being
Lost in the Morality of the Gospel—Exclusiveness of the Churches—The
Hope of Immortality and Belief in God have Nothing to do with Real
Religion—Special Providence a Mistake.
The Day regarded as a Holiday—A Festival far older
than Christianity—Relics of Sun-worship in Christian
Ceremonies—Christianity furnished new Steam for an old Engine—Pagan
Festivals correspond to Ours—Why Holidays are Popular—They must be for
the Benefit of the People.
HAS FREETHOUGHT A CONSTRUCTIVE SIDE?
The Object of Freethought—what the Religionist calls "Affirmative
and Positive"—The Positive Side of Freethought—Constructive Work of
Christianity.
He will be in Favor of universal Liberty, neither Master nor Slave; of
Equality and Education; will develop in the Direction of the Beautiful;
will believe only in the Religion of this World—His Motto—Will not
endeavor to change the Mind of the "Infinite"—Will have no Bells or
Censers—Will be satisfied that the Supernatural does not exist—Will be
Self-poised, Independent, Candid and Free.
The Working People should be protected by Law—Life of no particular
Importance to the Man who gets up before Daylight and works till
after Dark—A Revolution probable in the Relations between Labor and
Capital—Working People becoming Educated and more Independent—The
Government can Aid by means of Good Laws—Women the worst Paid—There
should be no Resort to Force by either Labor or Capital.
Much like People of other Religions—Teaching given Christian Children
about those who die in the Faith of Abraham—Dr. John Hall on
the Persecution of the Jews in Russia as the Fulfillment of
Prophecy—Hostility of Orthodox early Christians excited by Jewish
Witnesses against the Faith—An infamous Chapter of History—Good
and bad Men of every Faith—Jews should outgrow their own
Superstitions—What the intelligent Jew Knows.
CRUMBLING CREEDS.
The Common People called upon to Decide as between the Universities and
the Synods—Modern Medicine, Law, Literature and Pictures as against the
Old—Creeds agree with the Sciences of their Day—Apology the Prelude
to Retreat—The Presbyterian Creed Infamous, but no worse than
the Catholic—Progress begins when Expression of Opinion is
Allowed—Examining the Religions of other Countries—The Pulpit's
Position Lost—The Dogma of Eternal Pain the Cause of the orthodox
Creeds losing Popularity—Every Church teaching this Infinite Lie must
Fall.
OUR SCHOOLS.
Education the only Lever capable of raising Mankind—The
School-house more Important than the Church—Criticism of New York's
School-Buildings—The Kindergarten System Recommended—Poor Pay of
Teachers—The great Danger to the Republic is Ignorance.
The Hell of Science—Brutal Curiosity of Vivisectors—The Pretence that
they are working for the Good of Man—Have these scientific Assassins
added to useful Knowledge?—No Good to the Race to be Accomplished by
Torture—The Tendency to produce a Race of intelligent Wild Beasts.
THE CENSUS ENUMERATOR'S OFFICIAL CATECHISM.
Right of the Government to ask Questions and of the Citizen to refuse
to answer them—Matters which the Government has no Right to pry
into—Exposing the Debtor's financial Condition—A Man might decline to
tell whether he has a Chronic Disease or not.
Natural Phenomena and Myths celebrated—The great Day of the first
Religion, Sun-worship—A God that Knew no Hatred nor Sought Revenge—The
Festival of Light.
A much-abused Word—The Early Christians too Spiritual to be
Civilized—Calvin and Knox—Paine, Voltaire and Humboldt not
Spiritual—Darwin also Lacking—What it is to be really Spiritual—No
connection with Superstition.
What were thereby blown into Rags and Ravelings—The Birth of a
new Epoch announced—Lincoln made the most commanding Figure of the
Century—Story of its Echoes.
What might have been Asked of a Christian 100 years after
Christ—Hospitals and Asylums not all built for Charity—Girard
College—Lick Observatory—Carnegie not an Orthodox Christian—Christian
Colleges—Give us Time.
CRUELTY IN THE ELMIRA REFORMATORY.
Brockway a Savage—The Lash will neither develop the Brain nor cultivate
the Heart—Brutality a Failure—Bishop Potter's apostolical Remark.
The Object of a Trial—Justice can afford to Wait—The right of
Appeal—Case of Mrs. Maybrick—Life Imprisonment for Murderers—American
Courts better than the English.
BIGOTRY OF COLLEGES.
Universities naturally Conservative—Kansas State University's
Objection to Ingersoll as a commencement Orator—Comment by Mr. Depew
(note)—Action of Cornell and the University of Missouri.
The Chances a few Years ago—Capital now Required—Increasing
competition in Civilized Life—Independence the first Object—If he has
something to say, there will be plenty to listen.
Science goes hand in hand with Imagination—Artistic and Ethical
Development—Science destroys Superstition, not true Religion—Education
preferable to Legislation—Our Obligation to our Children.
"SOWING AND REAPING."
Moody's Belief accounted for—A dishonest and corrupting Doctrine—A
want of Philosophy and Sense—Have Souls in Heaven no Regrets?—Mr.
Moody should read some useful Books.
SHOULD INFIDELS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?
Teachings of orthodox Sunday Schools—The ferocious God of the
Bible—Miracles—A Christian in Constantinople would not send his
Child to a Mosque—Advice to all Agnostics—Strangle the Serpent of
Superstition.
WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE?
Character of the Bible—Men and Women not virtuous because of any
Book—The Commandments both Good and Bad—Books that do not help
Morality—Jehovah not a moral God—What is Morality?—Intelligence the
only moral guide.
GOVERNOR ROLLINS' FAST-DAY PROCLAMATION.
Decline of the Christian Religion in New Hampshire—Outgrown
Beliefs—Present-day Views of Christ and the Holy Ghost—Abandoned
Notions about the Atonement—Salvation for Credulity—The Miracles
of the New Testament—The Bible "not true but inspired"—The "Higher
Critics" riding two Horses—Infidelity in the Pulpit—The "restraining
Influences of Religion" as illustrated by Spain and Portugal—Thinking,
Working and Praying—The kind of Faith that has Departed.
A LOOK BACKWARD AND A PROPHECY.
The Truth Seeker congratulated on its Twenty-fifth Birthday—Teachings
of Twenty-five Years ago—Dodging and evading—The Clerical Assault
on Darwin—Draper, Buckle, Hegel, Spencer, Emerson—Comparison
of Prejudices—Vanished Belief in the Devil—Matter and
Force—Contradictions Dwelling in Unity—Substitutes for Jehovah—A
Prophecy.
Argument in the contested Election Case of Strobach against Herbert—The
Importance of Honest Elections—Poisoning the Source of Justice—The
Fraudulent Voter a Traitor to his Sovereign, the Will of the
People—Political Morality Imperative.
A FEW REASONS FOR DOUBTING THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE.
Date and Manner of Composing the Old Testament—Other Books not now in
Existence, and Disagreements about the Canon—Composite Character of
certain Books—Various Versions—Why was God's message given to the Jews
alone?—The Story of the Creation, of the Flood, of the Tower, and
of Lot's wife—Moses and Aaron and the Plagues of Egypt—Laws of
Slavery—Instructions by Jehovah Calculated to excite Astonishment and
Mirth—Sacrifices and the Scapegoat—Passages showing that the Laws of
Moses were made after the Jews had left the Desert—Jehovah's dealings
with his People—The Sabbath Law—Prodigies—Joshua's Miracle—Damned
Ignorance and Infamy—Jephthah's Sacrifice—Incredible Stories—The
Woman of Endor and the Temptation of David—Elijah and Elisha—Loss of
the Pentateuch from Moses to Josiah—The Jews before and after being
Abandoned by Jehovah—Wealth of Solomon and other Marvels.
PROF. VAN BUREN DENSLOW'S "MODERN THINKERS."
PREFACE TO DR. EDGAR C. BEALL'S "THE BRAIN AND THE BIBLE."
PREFACE TO "MEN, WOMEN AND GODS."
PREFACE TO "FOR HER DAILY BREAD."
PREFACE TO "AGNOSTICISM AND OTHER ESSAYS."
GENERAL GRANT'S BIRTHDAY DINNER
LOTOS CLUB DINNER, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
MANHATTAN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.
THE LIEDERKRANZ CLUB, SEIDL-STANTON BANQUET.
THE FRANK B. CARPENTER DINNER.
WESTERN SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BANQUET.
LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF ANTON SEIDL.
LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY.
ADDRESS TO THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA.
THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE LITERATURE.
CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE.
CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN SECULAR UNION.
THE RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
IS IT EVER RIGHT FOR HUSBAND OR WIFE TO KILL RIVAL?
EFFECT OF THE WORLD'S FAIR ON THE HUMAN RACE.
A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE.
AT THE GRAVE OF BENJAMIN W. PARKER.
A TRIBUTE TO EBON C. INGERSOLL
A TRIBUTE TO THE REV. ALEXANDER CLARK.
A TRIBUTE TO MRS. IDA WHITING KNOWLES.
A TRIBUTE TO HENRY WARD BEECHER.
A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD H. WHITING.
A TRIBUTE TO COURTLANDT PALMER.
A TRIBUTE TO MRS. MARY H. FISKE.
A TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE BARRETT.
A TRIBUTE TO PHILO D. BECKWITH.
A TRIBUTE TO DR. THOMAS SETON ROBERTSON.
INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD VOLUME.
| I. | THE REPUBLICAN PROCLAMATION |
| II. | TO THE AUTHORS OF "LE RÉPUBLICAIN." |
| III. | TO THE ABBÉ SIÈYES |
| IV. | TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL |
| V. | TO MR. SECRETARY DUNDAS |
| VI. | LETTERS TO ONSLOW CRANLEY |
| VII. | TO THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, |
| VIII. | TO MR. SECRETARY DUNDAS |
| IX. | LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ADDRESSERS ON THE LATE PROCLAMATION |
| X. | ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE |
| XI. | ANTI-MONARCHAL ESSAY FOR THE USE OF NEW REPUBLICANS |
| XII. | TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, ON THE PROSECUTION AGAINST THE SECOND PART |
| XIII. | ON THE PROPRIETY OF BRINGING LOUIS XVI. TO TRIAL |
| XIV. | REASONS FOR PRESERVING THE LIFE OF LOUIS CAPET, |
| XV. | SHALL LOUIS XVI. HAVE RESPITE? |
| XVI. | DECLARATION OF RIGHTS |
| XVII. | PRIVATE LETTERS TO JEFFERSON |
| XVIII. | LETTER TO DANTON |
| XIX. | A CITIZEN OF AMERICA TO THE CITIZENS OF EUROPE |
| XX. | APPEAL TO THE CONVENTION |
| XXI. | THE MEMORIAL TO MONROE |
| XXII. | LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON |
| XXIII. | OBSERVATIONS |
| XXIV. | DISSERTATION ON FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT |
| XXV. | THE CONSTITUTION OF 1795 |
| XXVI. | THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENGLISH SYSTEM OF FINANCE |
| XXVII. | FORGETFULNESS |
| XXVIII. | AGRARIAN JUSTICE |
| XXIX. | THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR |
| XXX. | THE RECALL OF MONROE |
| XXXI. | PRIVATE LETTER TO PRESIDENT JEFFERSON |
| XXXII. | PROPOSAL THAT LOUISIANA BE PURCHASED |
| XXXIII. | THOMAS PAINE TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES, |
| XXXIV. | TO THE FRENCH INHABITANTS OF LOUISIANA |
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